Healthbridge Post-Acute Rehabilitation

Healthbridge Post-Acute Rehabilitation is a small facility located in Wyoming, Michigan. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a high-end rating. In our view, this place is a no brainer for just about anybody. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's exemplary report card is its inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

In addition to receiving a quality overall score, this facility also received excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that area, with a grade of A. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its top-shelf accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A for its long-term care score. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. This place is as good as it gets in this area.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Nursing scores are primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This was one of the higher totals we found. Furthermore, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in the nation in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Turning to our last category, this nursing home was awarded a very strong short-term care score. We gave it a grade of B+ in that area, rounding out one of our finer profiles. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. It offered roughly 1.5 times as many registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.