Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac is located in Cadillac, Michigan, a city with a population of 21,236 people. This proved to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B+. You can definitely do much worse than this place. We were also pleased to find that this nursing home did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is generally a solid measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Facility Inspections
This facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 5 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.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we analyzed is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a C. This actually proved to be this facility's least impressive area. This is nevertheless not a poor grade. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 98.39358 percent of its residents. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 5.29% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percent of long-term patients which have pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 5.22% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term residents who experienced falls leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 18.83% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 11.92% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who are given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 0.41% of Patients
This is the percent of patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 97.67% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 9.9% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Many would argue that this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 18.06% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that the ability to move around is vital to residents' mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 18.06% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 25.82% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Samaritas Senior Living Cadillac, 68.74% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Munson Healthcare Cadillac HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.89 miles away400 Hobart St Cadillac Michigan 49601Voluntary non-profit - Church(231) 876-7200
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Cadillac0.55 miles away203 Paluster St Cadillac Michigan 49601Dialysis Stations: 12 (231) 779-8917