The Gilbert Residence

The Gilbert Residence is a small non-profit facility located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a dominant score. Based on our ratings, this place is just about as as good as it gets. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its nursing score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. The nursing grade analyzes quite a few subcategories, however, the main one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place boasts a really impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day, of which a significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility the nation. Preventing serious falls is typically an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are employed.

On the list of its many impressive scores, this facility was given a top-shelf long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in this category. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. This facility's vaccination data weren't as favorable as its nursing hours data. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 90.434784 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement in this area in the future. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.96 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final category we looked at, this facility was given a very strong grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home completed a very impressive profile. Short-term care scores are important for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.