ElderGuide.com
Senior Living
Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital

Get our free e-book to learn all about your senior care options.

Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating

See Rating Overview

805 W Cedar,
Standish MI 48658

(989) 846-4521

76.89% estimated occupancy ¹

With an address in Standish, Michigan, Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital is the lone option we were able to find in this area. Featuring an overall grade of A+, this facility is clearly a world class facility. We were so impressed with this facility that we rated it as one of the top 500 best nursing homes in the nation. If you look further down this page, you will see this nursing home's category grades, which look to be equally strong as its overall rating.

Get pricing and details on Standish senior living options.

Get Pricing

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Offers Post-Acute Care

Specialized Services

Occupational Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling

Get our free e-book to learn all about your senior care options.

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2022)

Less:

July

August

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

June

Short-term Care Quality

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is often a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Nursing grades are primarily based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a patient more often.

Does this page answer your questions about Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital?

Long-term Care Quality

Turning the page to our third area, we awarded this facility a grade of A for our long-term care rating. This is a dominant rating. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 96.875 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Facility Inspections

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned an elite grade of A. This topped off a straight A report card for this nursing home. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital, 6.38% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who had a fall which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital, 3.17% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who have had a UTI. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital, 6.25% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital, 21.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic measures the percent of long-term patients which were given antianxiety medication. These medications are given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital, 4.84% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Many in the industry argue this is a measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital, 98.44% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital, 11.86% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and continence. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital, 12.48% of Residents

This is the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital, 12.48% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.