Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu's website

500 Osborn Blvd,
Sault Sainte Marie MI 49783

(906) 635-4460

70.19% estimated occupancy ¹

Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu is a senior living facility located in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, a city with 19,668 people. Featuring an overall rating of C, this is likely a decent nursing home. Based on our analysis, there are certainly much worse places out there. One of the best aspects of this facility's profile is its stellar nursing score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
Government - County
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Laboratory
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Bariatric Care
Oncology Care

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Nurse Quality

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a much better grade for nursing than it received overall. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

This facility also was awarded a positive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave them a grade of B+ in that category, which is one of our better. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is typically a fair assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

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Long-term Care Quality

Turning to the category of long-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in that category. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Facility Inspections

The last category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable government inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This pulled down this nursing home's overall score significantly. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular nursing home had 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This usually indicates that a nursing home's bad track record has been an issue for several years.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 8.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 2.9% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients which have had falls resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 2.36% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 13.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 18.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 3.44% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 91.43% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 12.1% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a resident's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 17.7% Percentage of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels. Some argue that mobility is critical to patients mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 1.47 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to preserving the physical health of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 17.7 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Chippewa County War Mem Hosp Ltcu, 77.3% Percentage of Resident

This is the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

Chippewa County War Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0 miles away500 Osborn Blvd Sault Sainte Marie Michigan 49783Voluntary non-profit - Private(906) 635-4460