Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital Ltcu

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home received an A+ in our short-term care rating. In calculating these short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. The nursing grade analyzes quite a few datapoints, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Michigan in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a patient even once per day.

The third area we looked at is long-term care. Adding to its strong profile, this nursing home also excelled in that category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A- in the area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.589745 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Finishing off its excellent profile, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We gave it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better grades. Our inspection grades are tied to data points located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.