Grand Rapids Care Center

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Despite this deficiency, this was still a relatively favorable report.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this facility was given a grade of just D in that category. Sadly, this wound up being one of its best areas. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.0991 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

This facility's second lowest score is short-term care, where it earned just a D in that area. This is a well below average score. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Switching gears to our last category, we awarded this facility a grade of D in the area of nursing. This is the facility's least impressive category rating. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.