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The Willows at Okemos

  • Nursing Home
  • Independent Living
  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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The Willows at Okemos's website

4830 Central Park Drive,
Okemos MI 48864

(517) 349-3600

85.44% estimated occupancy 1

The Willows at Okemos is a small nursing home located in Okemos, Michigan. This turns out to be a grade A facility, which is a superb rating. In fact, this is actually the highest rated facility in Okemos. This place also received consistently good scores in all of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Optometry

Awards

Best Nursing Home in Okemos, Michigan badge

Best Nursing Home in Okemos, Michigan Awards 2019

Registered Staff Hours

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility received an A+ in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are probably more meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

Turning to our final category, this nursing home was awarded an extremely favorable long-term care grade. Even though this is not quite as dominant as some of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of our better grades we offer. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 94.88637 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

The Willows at Okemos Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-plus

In The Willows at Okemos, 2.53% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In The Willows at Okemos, 3.98% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that have sustained falls which caused serious injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In The Willows at Okemos, 1.2% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In The Willows at Okemos, 5.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In The Willows at Okemos, 20.25% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In The Willows at Okemos, 2.99% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe that this is a measure of quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In The Willows at Okemos, 97.44% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In The Willows at Okemos, 12.82% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In The Willows at Okemos, 17.16% of Residents

This indicates the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In The Willows at Okemos, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical health of patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In The Willows at Okemos, 17.16% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In The Willows at Okemos, 7.44% of Patients

This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In The Willows at Okemos, 74.7% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Edward W Sparrow HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.34 miles away1215 E Michigan Avenue Lansing Michigan 48912Voluntary non-profit - Other(517) 364-1000
  • Mclaren Greater LansingAcute Care Hospitals 7.43 miles away401 W Greenlawn Ave Lansing Michigan 48910Voluntary non-profit - Private(517) 975-6000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Davita - Lansing Home Hhd/Pd2.71 miles away4530 S Hagadorn Rd Ste B East Lansing Michigan 48823Dialysis Stations: 6 (517) 333-8450
  • Davita - Spartan Dialysis2.71 miles away4530 S Hagadorn Rd Ste A East Lansing Michigan 48823Dialysis Stations: 12 (517) 333-8414
  • Fresenius Medical Care - Lansing West5 miles away916 Mall Dr E Ste 100 Lansing Michigan 48917CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (517) 322-0894
  • Fmc - East Lansing5.3 miles away2601 Coolidge Rd Ste A East Lansing Michigan 48823CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (517) 333-9400
  • Fmc - Lansing5.55 miles away3960 Patient Care Dr Ste 112 Lansing Michigan 48911CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (517) 393-0352
  • Lansing Dialysis of Fmc7.6 miles away2710 S Washington Ave Suite 100 Lansing Michigan 48910CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 37 (517) 272-1380
  • Fmc - St Johns19.51 miles away975 E Townsend Rd Saint Johns Michigan 48879Dialysis Stations: 13 (989) 224-2662