Skld Bloomfield Hills

The main reason this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. When determining our nursing grades, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable score in short-term care. We awarded it one of our best scores in that category, with a grade of A-. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care score. This is not a very good score. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 90.98039 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is somewhat lower than we expected but still a respectable figure. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.

The final category we assessed is inspections. This facility did not receive favorable government inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This pulled down this nursing home's overall score significantly. With nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility had 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines recently of over $100,000. This typically means that a facility's poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.