Orchard Creek Skilled Nursing

Orchard Creek Skilled Nursing is a very-small nursing home located in Traverse City, Michigan. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is one of the most impressive grades that we offer. A score of this caliber requires top-notch marks across the board. Based on our assessment, this place is simply as good as it gets. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card is its short-term care score. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Michigan in this area with 75.8 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Compounding its strong assessments in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care grade. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. This place really excelled in this area.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing grade weighs a handful of subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place boasts a really impressive 5.6 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any facility in the nation in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided.

Finally, we found that this facility has received favorable inspections in recent years. We gave it a B in this area. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.