Medilodge of Montrose is located in Montrose, Michigan. Sporting an overall rating of C, this is likely a middle of the pack facility. This facility has a few things working in its favor. One of the better aspects of this nursing home's profile is its strong short-term care rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Medilodge of Montrose
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Oncology Care
- Aquatic Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home excelled at short-term care, with an impressive grade of A- in this area. This really boosted its overall grade. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is more often than not a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving patients at least once a day.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility's second worse score is long-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average score. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 88.52459 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.
Facility Inspections
Turning our final category of inspections, this nursing home received a grade that's as bad as it gets. Unfortunately, with an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was adversely affected. For nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home had one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by CMS had the potential to create actual harm to residents. Lastly, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This typically means that a bad track record spanned multiple years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Medilodge of Montrose Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Medilodge of Montrose, 8.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is an indication of the percent of long-term care residents who suffered from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a reliable indicator of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Medilodge of Montrose, 2.9% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are often caused by poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Medilodge of Montrose, 2.36% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffered from a UTI. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to nursing homes having differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Medilodge of Montrose, 13.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for many conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Medilodge of Montrose, 18.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Medilodge of Montrose, 3.44% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Medilodge of Montrose, 91.43% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Medilodge of Montrose, 12.1% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and bathing. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Medilodge of Montrose, 17.7% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Some would argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Medilodge of Montrose, 1.47 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Medilodge of Montrose, 17.7 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Medilodge of Montrose, 10.81 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Medilodge of Montrose, 77.3% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with better rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Mclaren FlintAcute Care Hospitals 12.97 miles away401 S Ballenger Highway Flint Michigan 48532Voluntary non-profit - Private(810) 342-2000
- Ascension St Mary's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.79 miles away800 S Washington Avenue Saginaw Michigan 48601Voluntary non-profit - Church(989) 776-8000
- Covenant Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.09 miles away1447 N Harrison Saginaw Michigan 48602Voluntary non-profit - Private(989) 583-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Flushing Dialysis of Davita9.05 miles away3469 Pierson Place, Ste A Flushing Michigan 48433CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (810) 733-5004
- Rrc - Mt Morris9.72 miles away7220 N Saginaw Rd Mount Morris Michigan 48458Dialysis Stations: 17 (810) 687-6837
- Davita - Mt Morris10.23 miles away6141 N Saginaw Rd Mount Morris Michigan 48458Dialysis Stations: 13 (810) 787-8134
- Hallwood Dialysis of Davita10.5 miles away4929 Clio Road Ste B Flint Michigan 48504Dialysis Stations: 16 (810) 787-4496
- Davita Colmare Dialysis11.98 miles away6302 Dixie Hwy Bridgeport Michigan 48722Dialysis Stations: 12 (989) 777-0780
- Park Plaza Dialysis of Davita12.62 miles awayG-1075 N Ballenger Hwy Flint Michigan 48504CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (810) 235-8468
- Fmc Dialysis - Flint13.27 miles away2222 S Linden Rd Ste S Flint Michigan 48532Dialysis Stations: 19 (810) 733-2283
- Flint Dialysis of Davita13.3 miles away2 Hurley Plaza, Suite 115 Flint Michigan 48503CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (810) 239-9920