Sanctuary at Mcauley
1380 E Sherman Blvd, Muskegon MI 49444 · (231) 672-2578 · 77.95% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Sanctuary at Mcauley is located in Muskegon, Michigan. The city has 128,715 people. With an overall grade of B+, this facility should work for most people. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this place. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card is its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 98 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
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 our short-term care assessment, we attempt to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Michigan in this area with 70.6 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents ever return home.
Nurse Quality
This facility received high grades in the area of nursing as well. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Nursing grades are primarily associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This place boasts a really impressive 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. On top of providing high levels of care, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls leading to serious injury, this facility performed as well as any facility the state. Avoiding serious falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are employed.
Facility Inspections
Moving on to another of this facility's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection grade. This turned out to be one of its best category grades. In that category, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of B+. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's weakest area was long-term care, which is the last category we scored. For this category, we gave this nursing home a D. We want to to draw your attention to this possible weakness, but you shouldn't over-emphasize one bad area either. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. This nursing home's vaccination data weren't as favorable some of the other data points in this category, such as its nursing hours. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 79.18782 percent of its patients. We'd like to see some improvement in this area in the future. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was also disappointing. Here we found that this place had 2.3 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sanctuary at Mcauley Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. However, this metric may also be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of deterioration of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better