The Villages of Lapeer Nursing & Rehabilitation

This nursing home's best category grade came in the area of inspections. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually outperformed most facilities in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 12 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an B. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 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 facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Sadly, this facility's next best category is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed somewhat badly. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Given its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.1 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning to our last category, this nursing home did not perform well. Due to a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this was this facility's poorest category grade. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective 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. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.67841 percent of its patients, which is better than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.