Lahser Hills Care Centre

Located in Southfield, Michigan, Lahser Hills Care Centre is one of five nursing homes in this area. Our rating scheme was not kind to this facility, as we gave it an overall rating of F. This facility did not have any redeeming qualities. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is inspections, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an B-. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. Based on the data, it looks like this place provides an impressive 4 hours per patient each day. This is more nursing care than most facilities offer. In determining our grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. This place performed admirably in this area. Avoiding serious falls is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

This nursing home also didn't fare poorly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a B- in that category, which ended up being among its better grades. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is often a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. This nursing home is respectable both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it was respectable in this metric with 47.7 percent of its residents returning home.

Turning to the fourth category, this facility did not perform very well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed. This nursing home's vaccination statistics weren't as favorable some of the other data points in this category, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 73.673035 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was also disappointing. Here we found that this facility had 2.25 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.