Founain Bleu Health and Rehabilitation Center
28910 Plymouth Road, Livonia MI 48150 · (734) 425-4814 · 75.74% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Founain Bleu Health and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized facility located in Livonia, Michigan. This is a decent nursing home with a B- overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Livonia. Based on our ratings, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. We were also pleased to find that this facility was consistent in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 108 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in nursing. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We assessed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home offers a very impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is among the better totals in the nation. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any facility the state when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections category. This is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next most favorable category is long-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the favorable quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff at this facility, we also were impressed by the nursing home's vaccination statistics. For example, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.64789 percent of its patients, which is an impressive total. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.07 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a substantially better hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we graded was short-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in that category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 36.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Founain Bleu Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better