Thornapple Manor

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also fared well in our long-term care category, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.78992 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This score is based on the place's recent inspections. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the next area we analyzed, this nursing home received dominant marks in the area of short-term care. Consequently, it received one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of of A+. Our short-term care grades are arguably more meaningful for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Turning to our fourth area, this facility was given a highly favorable nursing score. We awarded it an A in this area, giving this facility straight A's. Our nursing rating features many data points. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident more often.