Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Gladwin, Michigan. This nursing home is a lower end facility. A grade of this caliber indicates we found a few red flags. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Gladwin. The city has just one other nursing home. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next section.
Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to note its high marks in our short-term care rating. We awarded it an impressive grade of A- in this area, which was a rare bright spot for this place. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a fair measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of C. We looked at the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This facility averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. Although this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this metric. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a resident more frequently.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a grade of just D in the area of inspections. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. Generally, you should be more cautious when considering a facility with severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This particular facility was assessed 9 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we would like to point out that this nursing home received large government fines of more than $100,000. This typically suggests that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for multiple years.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home really did not fare well in this category either. With a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.297874 percent of its patients, which is better than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 2.9% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a fall leading to serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 2.36% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 13.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs may be used for treating a variety of conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 18.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly used to treat residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.44% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. High rates of depression could indicate a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 91.43% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 12.1% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom. Some believe that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 17.7% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 1.47 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 17.7 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 10.81 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 77.3% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Midmichigan Medical Center-GladwinCritical Access Hospitals 0.08 miles away515 Quarter Street Gladwin Michigan 48624Voluntary non-profit - Private(989) 426-9286
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Gladwin Dialysis0.19 miles away673 Quarter St Gladwin Michigan 48624Dialysis Stations: 19 (989) 246-0128