Grande Pointe Healthcare Commu

Although we didn't give this nursing home a good overall score, we actually gave it a strong grade in the category of inspections, where it received a B+. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid places that have a long list of deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home's second most favorable category came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a C. Long-term care grades are commonly used to assess a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 76.156586 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit less than average. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. There are numerous criteria included in this category. Many of the subcategories reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these datapoints to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we assessed was short-term care. This nursing home received a very poor grade of F in that category. Short-term care grades are often employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. With a score in this range for this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was below average in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. The nursing home offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.6 percent of its residents returning home.