Westlake Health Campus
10735 Bogie Lake Road, Commerce Township MI 48382 · (248) 363-9400 · 98.36% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Westlake Health Campus is a small nursing home located in Commerce Township, Michigan. We gave this facility an overall grade of B+. A score in this range requires favorable marks in most areas. Based on our assessment, you could do much worse than this facility. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its short-term care grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 61 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
We also found that this nursing home excelled in our short-term care rating. We gave them an A+ in this area. Our short-term care ratings are critical for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 69 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing grades are largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This was one of the higher figures we found. In addition, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering high levels of care, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home the country. Avoiding major falls is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them a grade of B+ in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we rated was long-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. Nevertheless, we would not judge this nursing home solely on a single bad area, as it received multiple impressive scores in other categories. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After looking at nursing hours provided by this facility, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Based on its grade in this category, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that this facility performed reasonably well both of these subcategories. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 98.69281 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Westlake Health Campus Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term residents which sustained falls leading to severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better