Skld Bloomfield Hills

Skld Bloomfield Hills is a large facility located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. We gave this nursing home an F, which is definitely concerning in our grading scheme. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Bloomfield Hills. The city has just one other nursing home. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is nursing, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This place provides 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is better than average. In determining our scores, we add more weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Finally, our nursing scores also weigh quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed above average in this area.

This facility also didn't grade out terribly in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of B- for that area, which wound up being another one of its more favorable scores. Our short-term care scores are crucial for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. This place performed well in this metric with 57.2 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This facility also didn't fare terribly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of C for that area, which is among its more respectable grades. Our long-term care grades are more important for those needing more traditional assistance related to activities of daily living. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 93.47826 percent of its residents, which is a bit less than we were hoping for. The last datapoint we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had a relatively high 3.97 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Neither its vaccination record nor its hospitalization rate were strengths for this facility in this area.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. When a facility has this poor of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.