Skld Ionia

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.46154 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning the page to our next category, this facility was awarded a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The fourth area we looked at is nursing, where this nursing home received a B+. This finished off an elite profile. Not many nursing homes received a B+ or better in all four categories. Nursing scores are largely associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.