ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Peters Township)

We wanted to point out that this nursing home' short-term care grade outpaced its overall score. We awarded it a B+ for its short-term care grade. Short-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned an B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. Our nursing rating consists of quite a few datapoints, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning patients more often.

The final category we graded is long-term care, which is this facility's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. Naturally, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall profile a bit. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 92.666664 percent of its patients, which is a few points below what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.