Huron Co Med Care Facility

Huron Co Med Care Facility is an average-sized government-owned facility in Bad Axe, Michigan. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is a very respectable rating. This nursing home truly has plenty working in its favor. As you will see below, this facility also performed just fine in our category grades. It is hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.

In addition to a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned a favorable nursing grade this year. We gave it one of our better grades in this category, with a B+. Our nursing score includes several factors, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 5.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

An additional strong feature for this facility is that it received a very positive short-term care score. In fact, this ended up being its second best category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. It fared better than most facilities in this area with 55.6 percent of its residents returning home.

The next area we graded is long-term care. This facility received an above average long-term care grade, with a grade of B in the area. 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 offering very impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.10448 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.34 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

In the last category we assessed, this facility received a good score in inspections as well. In fact, we gave it a B for that category. This facility didn't have any major weaknesses. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.