Wellspring - Frankenmuth Campus

In addition to faring well in its overall grade, this facility earned an excellent short-term care score. We gave it an A in that category. Our short-term care grades are probably most important for folks in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Nursing ratings are largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In our final category, this nursing home also was given an excellent long-term care grade, with a grade of B+. This rounded out a very impressive report card. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.86363 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.