Marycrest Manor

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our highest grades in this category with an A. Inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also was elite in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Few facilities fared better in this area. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. This was more of a strength for this nursing home. This place fared as well as just about any nursing home in Michigan in this area with 70.8 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term patients are able to return home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. We assessed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

In our last area, this facility also received a very strong long-term care grade, with a B+. This finished off a very strong report card. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 48.235294 percent of its patients, which is somewhat below what we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.