Imperial, a Villa Center

While we were not complementary of this facility's overall score, it received an impressive nursing score this year. We gave it a B in this area. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses are with patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Michigan in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident at least once a day.

This nursing home's second best area was its long-term care score, where it was given a C. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 86.79487 percent of its residents. This is significantly below average. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home received a grade of just D in the area of inspections. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home had 10 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we also want to point out that this place received significant government fines totaling over $100,000. This typically suggests that a poor performance spanned multiple years.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility really didn't perform very well in this area either. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Our short-term care ratings are probably most important for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.