ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation - Grosse Pointe Woods

In addition to earning a strong overall grade, this facility fared well in short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. 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. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Our nursing score consists of a handful of datapoints, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient more frequently.

This facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor dings aren't the end of the world.

Turning to the final area, this facility did not perform very well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in this category, this is obviously this facility's weakest category grade. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is a very solid statistic. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.