AHC Meadowbrook

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This place received 5 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 consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also was awarded a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it a B+ in that area, which is one of our better. Our short-term care ratings are arguably more critical for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this facility was given a grade of just D in that area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated only 90.27027 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

The final area we analyzed was nursing. We gave this nursing home a D in our nursing category, rendering this the facility's worst grade. There are quite a few data points within this area. Most of the criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. On top of receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found that this place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.