Meadow Brook Rehabilitation and Nursing

One of the reasons this ended up being a strong nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In this category, we awarded this facility an A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our long-term care grade. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 89.28571 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. In calculating our nursing scores, we factor in both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final category we looked at was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in that category. This is a decent grade in this category. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.