Meadowbrook Health and Rehab

Although this facility's overall score was rock bottom, it didn't perform as badly in the area of nursing. We awarded it a grade of C for this category. The nursing score assesses several subcategories, but the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, although this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory.

We gave this facility just a D for our short-term care grade and that actually wound up as its next most respectable category. Short-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. As you might expect, we found that this facility provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical nursing home. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's third highest score is long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively badly. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.24665 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

In our final category of inspections, this facility received a terrible score. For places with bad inspection scores, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 11 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.