Medilodge of Southfield

Medilodge of Southfield is located in Southfield, Michigan. We gave this nursing home an alarming overall rating based on the data we looked at. Southfield received a city grade of C, so there are other options in the city worth considering. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing rating is based on several components, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. According to CMS records, this place averaged 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Keep in mind that when we compute our nursing grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of training. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Incredibly, we gave this facility a B- for our short-term care score, which is not too bad of a score. Short-term care grades are generally used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 42.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The third area we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home's was given a rock-bottom long-term care score where it received a lowly F. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. This nursing home's vaccination records weren't as favorable as its number of nursing hours per resident. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 62.97578 percent of its patients. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.66 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also alarming.

The last category we looked at is inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F here. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular facility was hit with a category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst categories of deficiencies. Another red flag is that CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.