Medilodge of Montrose

Medilodge of Montrose is a large nursing home located in Montrose, Michigan. Our grading scheme was not favorable to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall score of F. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Montrose. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is nursing, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

While we gave this nursing home a terrible overall score, we awarded it a B- for our nursing rating. The nursing score consists of several subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident daily. At least one quarter of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours more in computing our ratings. Lastly, we also considered quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This place was above average in many of the major metrics we assessed, with good scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Remarkably, we gave this nursing home a grade of B- for our short-term care rating, which isn't too bad of a score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is more often than not a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it fared well in this metric with 69.8 percent of its patients returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our long-term care score. This is not one of our better scores. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 94.50549 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.48 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is far less favorable than its vaccination record.

In the last category of inspections, this facility really did not fare well. It received an F in our inspection category. This is the most heavily weighted category in our grading system. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to residents. On top of having severe deficiencies, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.