Tuscola County Medical Care Facility

With an address in Caro, Michigan, Tuscola County Medical Care Facility is the lone option we identified in this area. This facility is one of the highest-rated nursing homes we found. Receiving an A+ in our grading system requires excellent performance across the board. We really couldn't find many bad things to say about this place. Its scores are impeccable. Headlining this place's exemplary profile is its nursing grade, which we will address in the next section.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing grade. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. The nursing grade is based on a number of subcategories. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This particular facility provided 6.1 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This was one of the better totals we found. In addition, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing high levels of care, this nursing home was also above average in several of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home also was elite in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the elite quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff at this facility, we also were impressed by the facility's vaccination record. By way of example, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.662735 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.79 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also wanted to note the fact that this facility was given a strong grade of A in our short-term care area. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it was above average in this area with 53.5 percent of its residents returning home.

Another impressive feature for this nursing home is its inspection grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of A, finishing off its straight A performance. Inspection grades are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.