Nursing home
Westwood Nursing Center
16588 Schaefer, Detroit, MI 48235 · Map
For profit - Individual · 108 certified beds
Westwood Nursing Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Detroit, Michigan. CMS rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall (1/5 for staffing, 4/5 for health inspections). Its most recent inspection on Oct 11, 2024 cited 3 deficiencies.
- 11 fines totaling $68,807In CMS records: 11 total penalties.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Westwood Nursing Center compares
This facility vs. the Michigan and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Michigan avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | — | 4.03 | 3.89 | — |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | — | 0.77 | 0.68 | — |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | — | 2.38 | 2.34 | — |
| Nursing staff turnover | 71.3% | 44.4% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 3.0 | 9.8 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
Penalties in CMS records: 11 fines totaling $68,807, 11 total penalties.
What inspectors found at Westwood Nursing Center
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Environmental Deficiencies · Dec 18, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Dec 18, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Dec 18, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Dec 18, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Not transfer or discharge a resident without an adequate reason; and must provide documentation and convey specific information when a resident is transferred or discharged.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Feb 20, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Oct 11, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Oct 11, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Oct 11, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Mar 29, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Mar 7, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Mar 7, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Nov 15, 2023 · Full report (PDF)
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 16588 Schaefer
Detroit, MI 48235 - CMS certification #
- 235444
- Ownership
- For profit - Individual
- Certified beds
- 108
- Avg residents/day
- 107.9
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1985-07-09
- Setting
- Urban
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Location and nearby
Explore the area around Westwood Nursing Center using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says A memory care unit, nurse 24 hours a day, transportation
- Staff pay 3 federal wage cases with violations found, since 2016
- Workplace safety 2 OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2022, 19 violations cited
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Westwood Nursing Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Has a separate memory care unit, wing or neighborhood.
Secured Dementia Unit
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Nurse on site: 24 hours a day.
With 24-hour nursing care, our team of licensed staffed LPNs, RNs and CNAs strives to provide the best care possible to our residents.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Provides transportation.
Transportation
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room.
125-Bed Facility with Private and Semi-Private Rooms
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
- Findings for Jun 15, 2022 to Jun 14, 2024. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $1,390 owed to 20 employees. Civil money penalties assessed: $10,060. DOL marked the employer as a repeat violator. Employer as DOL recorded it: Westwood Nursing Home (Metro Man I, Inc). Case 1990899.
- Findings for Aug 24, 2019 to Aug 21, 2021. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $14,205 owed to 21 employees. DOL marked the employer as a repeat violator. Employer as DOL recorded it: Westwood Nursing Center (Metro Man I, Inc). Case 1958156.
- Findings for Mar 5, 2016 to Mar 3, 2018. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $1,072 owed to 1 employee. Employer as DOL recorded it: Westwood Nursing Home (Metro Man, LLC). Case 1850868.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.
OSHA workplace safety inspections
OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.
- Sep 4, 2024: complaint inspection, partial (health). Case closed Sep 25, 2025. 5 violations cited (5 repeat). Penalties: $15,000 proposed, $7,500 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Westwood Nursing Center.
Details
- Repeat: Personal protective equipment (general) (1910.132(d)(2)). Penalty $2,500 proposed, $1,250 now.
- Repeat: Cited rule 325.70015(2). Penalty $2,500 proposed, $1,250 now. To be fixed by May 7, 2025.
- Repeat: Cited rule 325.70015(5). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by May 7, 2025.
- Repeat: Cited rule 408.22129(1). Penalty $5,000 proposed, $2,500 now. To be fixed by May 7, 2025.
- Repeat: Cited rule 408.22141(1). Penalty $5,000 proposed, $2,500 now. To be fixed by May 7, 2025.
- Nov 22, 2022: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (health). Case closed Dec 29, 2023. 14 violations cited (8 serious, 6 other). Penalties: $9,100 proposed, $4,550 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Westwood Nursing Center.
Details
- Serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(e)(1)). Penalty $2,400 proposed, $1,200 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(h)(3)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Serious: Cited rule 325.47201(3). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Serious: Eye and face protection (1910.133(a)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Serious: Cited rule 325.70004(B). Penalty $3,000 proposed, $1,500 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Serious: Cited rule 325.70016(2). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Serious: Cited rule 325.70016(5). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(a)(2)). Penalty $3,000 proposed, $1,500 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Other than serious: Cited rule 325.70015(2). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Other than serious: Cited rule 325.70015(5). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Other than serious: Cited rule 408.22129(1). Penalty $700 proposed, $350 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Other than serious: Cited rule 408.22141(2). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Other than serious: Asbestos (1910.1001(j)(3)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
- Other than serious: Personal protective equipment (general) (1910.132(d)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 12, 2023.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Sinai-Grace Hospital, Detroit. 0.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 1 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- The Orchards at Northwest, Detroit. 0.5 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Reymac Home Healthcare, Detroit. 1.3 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 1.0 mile away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 48235 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Schaeffer Drive Dialysis, Detroit, 0.7 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Greenfield Hs - Northwest Detroit, Detroit, 1.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars)
Detroit Kidney Center LLC, Detroit, 1.9 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 38 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 48235.
Henry Ford Hospice, office in Detroit, 4.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
St Marie'S, office in Southfield, 4.5 miles away, straight line
Universal Hospice Care, office in Southfield, 4.7 miles away, straight line - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Henry Ford Health System, Detroit. 1.8 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard risk
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively low, tornado relatively moderate, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake relatively low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
What we checked
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| Detroit Health Department kitchen inspections | Oct 15, 2026 | No kitchen matched |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: no FEMA wildfire rating of moderate or higher here |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Westwood Nursing Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Westwood Nursing Center an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars, including 1/5 for staffing and 4/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
Has Westwood Nursing Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 3 deficiencies.
How many beds does Westwood Nursing Center have?
Westwood Nursing Center is certified for 108 beds.