Medilodge of Sterling Heights

Medilodge of Sterling Heights is located in Sterling Heights, Michigan. This city has a total of 129,683 people. This nursing home was given an overall rating of F. Sterling Heights received a city grade of C, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we gave this facility a very poor overall grade, we awarded it a B in nursing. Nursing scores are mostly associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

We were also stunned to find that this facility earned a decent short-term care rating this year. We awarded it a grade of C in that category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 40.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

Sadly, this nursing home's next best category was long-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. Facilities that do not score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated a relatively low 75.16704 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.69 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also alarming.

Turning our last category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had potential to create actual harm to residents. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines of more than $100,000. This generally suggests that a nursing home's bad track record has been an issue for several years.