Cedar Springs Health and Rehab

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.54955 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Places that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facilities next best category is short-term care. We awarded it a B- in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

Turning to our final category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in nursing. This is the facility's least impressive category score. However, we wouldn't dwell on one bad area. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in determining our score in this category. This facility averaged just 0.6 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Although this nursing home's nursing hours were below average, it surprised us in some of the qualitative metrics in this category. In particular, we were pleased to see that its residents are experiencing fewer pressure ulcers than most nursing homes.