Grand River Health & Rehab Center

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this facility a grade of A- for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than the facility's overall score. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's second best area ended up being its short-term care score, where it was given a C. In forming our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this area. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, while this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did well in this statistic.

This facility's worst area was long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of just D. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated only 87.982834 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.