Grayling Nursing & Rehab Community

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in our short-term care rating. It earned one of our best scores in that area with A. Short-term care grades are often employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive grades, we awarded this facility an B+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. When computing our nursing scores, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident even once per day.

This nursing home's least impressive category was long-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this area. Despite some strong scores in other categories, this grade is nevertheless somewhat of a concern so we would like to to make sure you are aware. For residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After considering the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.