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Houghton Co Med Care Facility

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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Houghton Co Med Care Facility's website

1100 Quincy St,
Hancock MI 49930

(906) 482-5050

60.4% estimated occupancy 1

With an address in Hancock, Michigan, Houghton Co Med Care Facility is one of just three nursing homes in this city. This turns out to be a grade A facility, which is a truly elite rating. In fact, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the 100 best nursing homes in Michigan. This is an impressive accomplishment in a state with a long list of elite facilities. We also gave this facility strong scores in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Government - County
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Amputee Recovery
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Podiatry
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Optometry
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Awards

Best Nursing Home in Hancock, Michigan badge

Best Nursing Home in Hancock, Michigan Awards 2019

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

To complement its elite achievements in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for its short-term care score. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 4.6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

Contributing to its fine assessment, this facility also received a dominant long-term care score, with a grade of A-. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

In the last category we scored, this nursing home was awarded a very favorable grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the facility finished off a straight A profile. In computing our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Houghton Co Med Care Facility Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 13.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 3.17% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term care residents that experienced falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 3.43% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents who suffered from urinary tract infections. While a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different nursing homes due to facilities having differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 23.04% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This gauges the percent of long-term patients who are given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 18.95% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 1.31% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many would argue this is a measure of resident quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A-minus

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 99.25% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 19.63% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 19.86% of Residents

This indicates the percentage of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 19.86% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: D

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 17.16% of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-minus

In Houghton Co Med Care Facility, 84.74% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living usually correlates with successful rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Up Health System PortageAcute Care Hospitals 1.2 miles away500 Campus Drive Hancock Michigan 49930Voluntary non-profit - Other(906) 483-1000
  • Aspirus Keweenaw HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 10.57 miles away205 Osceola Calumet Michigan 49913Voluntary non-profit - Private(906) 337-6500

Nearby Dialysis

  • Portage Health Dialysis Ctr1.2 miles away500 Campus Drive Hancock Michigan 49930Dialysis Stations: 12 (906) 483-1720