Mission Point of Cranbrook

This nursing home's nursing score is notably more impressive than its overall grade. With a strong performance in this category, it received one of our better scores in nursing with a grade of B+. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing patients and the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Michigan in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents more frequently.

Inspections is another category where this nursing home excelled. We gave this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections category. This is far more impressive than its overall score. Inspection scores are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a C. In our long-term care rating, we assess the quantity of services offered by a facility, as well as a few qualitative statistics. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 67.54386 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a few points below what we expected. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to our last area, we awarded this facility a D in short-term care. This is the facility's least impressive category score. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more critical for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.