King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community is a facility in Houghton Lake, Michigan, which has 7,854 people. This facility is ranked among the best facilities we looked at. A score in this range requires top-notch scores across the board. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top 20 percent of all facilities in the nation. Keep reading to find this nursing home's category scores, which also impressed us. You just can't do much better than a straight A profile.
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King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
We also wanted to emphasize that this nursing home has received nearly flawless health inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk 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
This nursing home also was dominant in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Not many facilities received a better grade in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a useful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
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Long-term Care Quality
Moving on our third category, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care score. This is a very strong rating. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.27007 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients 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.
Nurse Quality
The final category we graded was nursing, where this nursing home was given a grade of A-. This topped off a very favorable report card. Very few nursing homes received an A- or higher in in each area we assessed. When computing a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are caring for patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 8.97% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 2.19% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 3.79% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often associated with facilities with worst hygiene practices. Closer supervision reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 5.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 7.44% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay patients which were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 1.56% of Patients
This is the percent of residents showing depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression may be an indicator lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 99.64% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 8.7% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the erosion of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 6.24% of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is vital to patients mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 6.24% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 8.16% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, 86.41% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
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