Clarkston Specialty Healthcare Center
4800 Clintonville Rd, Clarkston MI 48346 · (248) 674-0903 · 74.83% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Clarkston Specialty Healthcare Center is a nursing home in Clarkston, Michigan, which has 45,954 people. This nursing home is a relatively poor nursing home. A grade in this range suggests we found some red flags. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Clarkston. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong short-term care rating. You can scroll down to learn more about short-term care and other category scores
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Even though we did not give this facility a good overall grade, we actually gave it a strong grade for short-term care, where it received a B+. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 49.5 percent of its residents able to return home.
Nurse Quality
We also gave this facility favorable marks in the area of nursing care, where it received a grade of B+. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Facility Inspections
This facility received an F for its inspection score. For facilities that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility had 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This usually means that a nursing home's poor track record spanned more than one year.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we rated was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a very poor score. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 92.439865 percent of its residents. This is a bit lower than we expected but still a respectable figure. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. Although it had 1.74 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric wasn't bad due to it having more complex patients. This was its best feature in this category
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Clarkston Specialty Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better