Star Manor of Northville

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

On the list of its many elite grades, this nursing home was given a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this category. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to craft a fair measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The final category we graded is long-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B. Although this wound up being its weakest category score, this is still a good score. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.