Medilodge of Cass City

Medilodge of Cass City is an average-sized nursing home located in Cass City, Michigan. Featuring an overall score of B+, this looks like a very good nursing home. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. Keep reading to see this facility's category scores, which are also strong. It's hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing grade is mostly based on a facility's nurse staffing. This place provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is an impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Finally, this facility also excelled in several quality-based metrics we assessed. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category.

This facility received a favorable long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.48485 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. The last statistic we assessed is its hospitalization rate. While it had 3.16 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was middle of the road since it had some more complex patients.

The final area we rated was short-term care, where we gave it an above average grade of B. This facility truly doesn't have any weak categories. Our short-term care grade is typically used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This place outperformed the majority of facilities in the nation with 51.4 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.