Traverse Care Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility also received a positive score in our short-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in that category. Our short-term care grades are likely most critical for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a resident even once per day.

The next area we rated was long-term care, which was this facility's least impressive area. We gave it an F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated just 90.7563 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.