Maple Manor Rehab Center of Novi

This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. This boosted its overall profile. In crafting these short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility's second best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. Although this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents more often.

The third area we analyzed is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a solid grade of C. In our long-term care grade, we weigh the quantity of care provided by a facility, along with a handful of qualitative measures. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 92.15686 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Finally, this facility received a C. Inspection grades are based on a facility's government inspections. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category G through L deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent danger to resident safety or health. We really did not consider anything on this nursing home's inspection reports to be overly concerning.