Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

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.

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.

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.

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.