Shelby Crossing Health Campus

On top of performing well overall, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it earned one of our best grades in that area with an A+. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

An additional reason we graded this facility so favorably is that it was awarded an A+ short-term care score. This is just about as dominant as it gets in this category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This facility provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually an encouraging sign. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Michigan in this area with 68.2 percent of its patients returning home.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Our nursing rating analyzes many components, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provides an incredible 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls resulting in major injury, this facility performed as well as any facility Michigan.

The last area we rated is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of B. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Although we determined this nursing home has an impressive volume of nursing care provided by nurses and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be somewhat lower than we expected. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 81.42857 percent of its residents. This is one figure we'd love to see this facility improve. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 3.28 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this category, this number may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents.