Evergreen Manor Senior Care Ce

With an address in Battle Creek, Michigan, Evergreen Manor Senior Care Ce is one of six facilities in the city. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel overall rating based on the data we looked at. This facility is really as bad as it gets. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Nursing grades are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. With 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this facility surpassed the national average. We also look at the qualifications of these nurses and add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these subcategories. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning residents more frequently.

We were also pleasantly surprised to discover that this facility received a solid short-term care grade in our assessment. We awarded it a B- in that area. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This category is often a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. It also performed well in this area with 60.9 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.

Incredibly, we gave this facility a grade of B- for its long-term care score, which is not too bad of a score. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 97.35099 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.63 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

In our final area of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home had 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.