Four Chaplains Nrsg Care Center
28349 Joy Rd, Westland MI 48185 · (734) 261-9500 · 90.19% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Four Chaplains Nrsg Care Center is a nursing home in Westland, Michigan, which has 84,124 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of A-. In fact, this is the highest graded facility in the city. We simply can't say enough favorable things about this facility. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile was its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 103 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home also received nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that area with an A+. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was elite in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities fared better in this category. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who returned home from this facility. It outperformed the vast majority of facilities with 60.8 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing grade weighs quite a few datapoints, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls which lead to major injury, this facility performed as well as any facility in Michigan.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of C. While this turned out to be its poorest category grade, this is nevertheless not the end of the world. In the category of long-term care, we weigh the quantity of services provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination data is above average also. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 96.92833 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. While it had 1.98 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than the majority of nursing homes due to it having more complicated patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Four Chaplains Nrsg Care 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