Lapeer County Medical Care Fac

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. Our short-term care grade is generally used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Nursing grades are mostly associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an impressive grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of B. Believe it or not, this was this facility's weakest area. A facility could be doing a lot worse when their lowest grade still is better than most other facilities. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.64158 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.