Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn
48300 11 Mile Road,
Novi MI 48374
67.7% estimated occupancy 1
Wellbridge of Novi is one of five available nursing homes in Novi, Michigan. This is a decent nursing home with a B- overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Novi. You could certainly do worse than this nursing home. One of the highlights of this facility's profile is its strong short-term care score, which we will address in the next section.
This facility really excelled in our short-term care rating. We gave it an impressive grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. This really salvaged its overall profile. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the country in this area with 71.8 percent of its residents returning home.
We would also like to draw your attention to this facility's strong inspection grade. This nursing home earned a B in this category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.
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In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. Our nursing grade is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
The next area we graded was long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave it an F in this area, which is clearly very concerning. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 93 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. Although it had 1.83 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric wasn't bad since it had some more complicated patients. This is its best score in this category
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 8.94% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great measure of nursing care quality.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 2.87% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients who have had a fall which resulted in major injury.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 2.36% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely the result of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric may also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 13.06% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 18.58% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents taking antianxiety drugs.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 3.45% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could be a sign a less hospitable environment.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 91.71% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines vital to patient care.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 12.37% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 19.59% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 1.35 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 19.59 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 10.82 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
In Wellbridge of Novi, 76.52% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
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