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 99.425285 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 its next most favorable category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this category, which is an acceptable grade. Short-term care grades are typically used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

Moving on to the next category, this nursing home was given a grade of C for nursing, which is generally an acceptable score. The nursing score consists of quite a few subcategories, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing scores also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.