Metron of Belding

Metron of Belding is located in Belding, Michigan. This city has a total of 11,015 people. This nursing home was given an overall rating of F. Based on our assessment, you would be better off to steer clear of this place. Lastly, this nursing home's ownership changed in the last year, so we will need to monitor it to confirm it is able to raise its standard of care going forward.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. Nursing grades are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This place provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Out of this total, more than one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly skilled levels of nurses. We attach more significance to these skilled nursing hours in preparing our nursing grades. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also didn't rate too badly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a B- in that area, which turned out to be among its better grades. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. 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. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 35.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this place is below average.

Another concern was the F this facility received in the category of long-term care. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated only 82.3219 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.86 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Moving on the last category of inspections, this facility had an abysmal showing. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection category. This is our most heavily weighted category in our overall grading system. For places with poor inspection grades, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home had a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had potential to create actual harm to residents. Another area of concern is that CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.