Qualicare Nursing Home

Qualicare Nursing Home is an average-sized nursing home located in Detroit, Michigan. We gave this facility an overall grade of D. A score of this caliber typically suggests a few concerning datapoints. Unfortunately, this grade was right in line with the city grade in Detroit, which is also very poor. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall score, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Our inspection ratings are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility averages 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is well below average. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

Unfortunately, this facility's next highest score was long-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively badly. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated just 77.67857 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was also a cause for concern. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.57 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.

The next category we rated was short-term care. This facility received a poor grade of F in this category. Our short-term care ratings are presumably most important for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Considering its score in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 33 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.