Four Seasons Nursing Center of Westland

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's second most favorable category was long-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this area. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. We were a bit concerned this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to only 81.884056 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we rated was short-term care, which turned out to be a weak link for this facility. We gave this nursing home a grade of just D in the area of short-term care. Short-term care grades are critical for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a score of this caliber for this category, we weren't surprised to find that this place was well below average in the two key staffing figures we focus on. The nursing home supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.