Fox Run Village

Fox Run Village is a small non-profit nursing home located in Novi, Michigan. Featuring an overall score of A-, this is clearly a very good facility. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the country. This nursing home's impressive report card was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation with 71.1 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. The nursing grade consists of quite a few subcategories, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This was one of the highest totals we found. In addition, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also performed well in many of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to major injury, this facility outpaced the national average. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also performed well in the category of inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with a grade of B+. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The next area we graded is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B-. This proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. This is still not a poor grade. In determining our long-term care ratings, we look at the facility's personal care services. This facility's vaccination records were not as impressive as its nursing hours. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 90.14085 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.