Grand Haven Nursing Home

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially want to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave it an A+ in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was given a strong long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to minimize negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home was awarded an impressive short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last area we rated is nursing. This nursing home was awarded a B- in this area. Our nursing score considers many factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a low total compared with most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this metric. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident more frequently.