Kalkaska Memorial Health Center
419 S Coral St, Kalkaska MI 49646 · (231) 258-7500 · 87.98% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Located in Kalkaska, Michigan, Kalkaska Memorial Health Center is the sole nursing home we identified in the city. We gave this facility an overall grade of B+. A score of this caliber requires solid marks in most areas. We also want to point out that this place is based in a hospital. Typically, this indicates that more intensive medical services are offered. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its nursing score, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 104 Beds
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Government - Hospital district
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for our nursing rating. There are many criteria within this category. Many of these factors relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This place provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is among the better figures in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by these figures. On top of offering high levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this place performed as well as any nursing home the nation.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of A. Only a select group of facilities performed more favorably in this area. Short-term care grades are often used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. This place outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 57.3 percent of its patients returning home.
Facility Inspections
This facility also earned top notch government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of A-. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we analyzed was long-term care, which proved to be a weak spot for this nursing home. We gave this facility a D in the area of long-term care, making this the facility's least impressive area. We would nevertheless recommend that you consider all of a nursing home's grades. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing nursing hours and other staffing provided by this nursing home, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Due to its grade in this category, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that this facility performed reasonably well both subcategories. In fact, this facility vaccinated 99.411766 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.74 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Kalkaska Memorial Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term patients who have suffered falls resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of erosion of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better