Healthsource Saginaw

We gave this facility one of our better scores in nursing, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Nursing grades are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also fared well in the area of short-term care. For this reason, we gave it a grade of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our best scores. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also was given a favorable grade in our long-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in that area. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 97.47369 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's worst grade. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent government inspections. We gave this nursing home a D in this category, which is not good. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we typically take it seriously. One of the most critical factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we would like to point out that this facility received significant government fines recently exceeding $50,000. This typically suggests that CMS inspectors grew tired after several years of failed inspections.