Skld West Bloomfield

Although we were not very high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it an impressive grade of A for short-term care. This grade is much more impressive than the facility's overall grade, which could have been even worse without this category. In our short-term care category, we seek to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. Nursing scores are mostly based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this subcategory. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a resident even once per day.

We wanted to point out this facility's inspection rating where it received an F. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines recently of more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a bad performance spanned more than one year.

The last area we rated is long-term care. This facility received a poor grade of F in that category. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.55947 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.