Medilodge of Rogers City

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also excelled in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Very few nursing homes fared better in this area. In our short-term care rating, we seek to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Turning the page to our next area, this facility received a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in that area. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 82.58427 percent of its residents against pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the next area, this nursing home also performed admirably in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for that category. This completed a first-rate profile. We scrutinized the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.