Covenant Medical Center Michigan

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our short-term care ratings are critical for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 7.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. There are quite a few criteria within this grade. Most of these datapoints relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a patient more often.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

The next area we scored is long-term care. In this category, we gave this nursing home a decent grade of B-. This actually proved to be this facility's weakest category. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down this place's vaccination data. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.