Sanctuary at Fraser Villa
33300 Utica Rd, Fraser MI 48026 · (586) 293-3300 · 92.85% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Fraser, Michigan, Sanctuary at Fraser Villa is the lone nursing home located in the area. With an A- overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top quarter of all facilities in the United States. Based on our assessment, this place looks like a no brainer for just about anybody. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 154 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.
Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to its top-shelf assessment, this nursing home also was awarded a strong short-term care score, with a grade of A. Short-term care grades are typically employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy. We found that it provides at least one and a half times as many hours with physical therapists to its patients than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 71 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. In computing a facility's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses are with patients and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is much better than what is offered by most places. Finally, this place also excelled in several quality-based metrics we looked at. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we rated proved to be this facility's poorest area. Nevertheless, even its weakest link would likely be a highlight for many facilities. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B for our long-term care category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered on top of this nursing home's quality nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.90419 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly. This combination proved to be effective as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. While it had 1.77 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than most facilities since it had some more complicated patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sanctuary at Fraser Villa Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which developed pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better