Henry Ford Village

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent health inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also received a favorable grade in our short-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B+ in this category. In computing these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this statistic. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving patients even once per day.

The final category we graded was long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of D for the area of long-term care, making this the nursing home's least impressive area. Facilities that don't fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this facility provided the vaccine to only 69.04762 percent of its residents, which is somewhat alarming. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.