Grand River Health & Rehab Center

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A-. Inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the area of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B. It actually fared better than most nursing homes in this category. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more important for individuals in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. In calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is well below average. Finally, our nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

This facility's weakest area was long-term care, which is the final category we assessed. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this facility vaccinated just 81.666664 percent of its patients, which is somewhat alarming. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.