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Mission Point of Big Rapids

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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Mission Point of Big Rapids's website

725 W Fuller,
Big Rapids MI 49307

(231) 796-2631

86.15% estimated occupancy ¹

Mission Point of Big Rapids is one of just a couple available nursing homes in Big Rapids, Michigan. It looks like this is a very respectable nursing home. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a very solid rating. You can certainly do much worse than this nursing home. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which you can find in the next section.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Short-term Care Quality

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care ratings are important for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this facility an B+. The nursing grade includes many datapoints, however, the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

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Facility Inspections

Adding to its strong resume, this facility earned a grade of B for its inspections rating. This is a well above average score in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Long-term Care Quality

The final area we graded is long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. This really is one of the couple of weak links in an otherwise strong profile. For patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 99.04306 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Mission Point of Big Rapids Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 7.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 5.74% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term patients that have experienced falls resulting in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 1.49% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often the result of facilities with worst hygiene practices. Closer supervision limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients that are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients suffering from cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 17.42% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 5.64% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 98.18% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 12.5% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the erosion of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 19.41% of Residents

This is the percentage of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 19.41% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 9.39% of Patients

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Mission Point of Big Rapids, 74.13% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.