Bay Bluffs-Emmet County Medical Care Facility is a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility in Harbor Springs, MI (CCN 235033) operating under government - county ownership, with 120 certified beds and an average daily census of about 69 residents. CMS assigned it a 5-star Overall rating on the Five-Star Quality Rating System (much above average), built from a 4/5 Health Inspection component, a 5/5 Staffing component, and a 5/5 Quality Measures component. According to CMS Nursing Home Care Compare and the National Provider Identifier Registry, covering more than 14,000 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes with over 1 million certified beds and Five-Star Quality Ratings issued since December 2008 you can search and compare here, every figure traces to its source in our methodology.

On compliance, CMS records show 5 total deficiencies on the most recent survey cycle - the national average is 9.5 deficiencies per facility, so Bay Bluffs-Emmet County Medical Care Facility currently sits at or below that baseline. RN staffing is 1.51 hours per resident per day, which is 122% above the national average of 0.68 hours, a CMS-reported figure derived from payroll-based journal (PBJ) submissions.

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