Promedica Monroe Skilled Nursing and Rehab

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection rating. Inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In this category, we awarded it an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it was awarded an above average short-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category score. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a resident more often.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home was given a highly favorable long-term care rating. This facility did not turn out to have any real weaknesses. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.56896 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.