The Orchards Michigan - Samaritan

    5555 Conner St, Detroit, MI 48213
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.55·(94)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      4.3
    • Staff

      4.5
    • Meals

      2.3
    • Amenities

      3.7
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, respectful, and attentive staff
    • Knowledgeable and approachable nursing and administrative teams
    • Positive wound-care support and reported healing progress
    • Engaging, inclusive activities and social opportunities
    • Welcoming environment and frequent family reassurance
    • Clean, comfortable, and well-organized areas
    • Satisfying meals and support with daily living
    • Helpful transition support for residents and families

    Cons

    • Staffing capacity concerns affecting resident responsiveness
    • Delays in incontinence care and other routine personal care
    • Inconsistent communication and call-back reliability
    • Variable rehabilitation intensity and clinical-care coordination
    • Inconsistent meal suitability and quality
    • Room-cleanliness and equipment-maintenance concerns

    Summary of reviews

    Overall, the reviews are predominantly positive, with residents and families frequently praising the staff’s compassion, respect, and attentiveness. Several describe feeling welcomed and supported, including during rehabilitation, long-term care, hospice care, and transitions into the facility. Positive comments also mention wound-care support and improvement in residents’ health. However, detailed critical reviews raise concerns about staffing capacity, timely personal care, communication, and consistency of services, so experiences appear to vary.

    Activities are a particularly consistent strength. Reviewers describe frequent events such as games, crafts, music, entertainment, outings, and celebrations, with staff bringing activities and snacks to residents who remain in their rooms. Families say these opportunities help residents socialize and stay engaged. Staff are often described as friendly, knowledgeable, and responsive to questions, and some reviewers specifically commend the administrator’s approachability and follow-up. Other accounts describe difficulty reaching the facility or receiving a return call, indicating that communication may not be reliable for every family.

    Feedback on care and rehabilitation is mixed. Positive accounts describe attentive nursing care, support with wounds, and residents making progress. Critical accounts raise concerns about staffing levels, delays in personal care, and the amount of physical therapy provided. One family also described difficulty with coordination during a rehabilitation stay; this is a specific account rather than evidence of a consistent facility-wide practice. Prospective residents may want to ask about staffing on the relevant unit, therapy schedules, clinical escalation procedures, and how families are updated about changes in care.

    Dining feedback is limited and mixed: one resident expressed strong satisfaction with meals, while families raised concerns about meal quality and whether meals consistently matched dietary needs. The physical environment is often described as clean, comfortable, and welcoming. A few critical accounts, however, raise room-cleanliness and equipment-maintenance concerns, suggesting that conditions may vary by area or visit. Overall, the facility’s strongest recurring themes are staff warmth and activity programming, while the most relevant areas to clarify during a tour are personal-care response times, family communication, rehabilitation services, dining accommodations, and unit-level upkeep.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.

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    Location

    The Orchards Michigan - Samaritan is located at 5555 Conner St, Detroit, MI, 48213.

    About The Orchards Michigan - Samaritan

    The Orchards Michigan - Samaritan sits in Detroit, Michigan, offering long-term care for older adults in a nursing home setting, so you'll find skilled nursing and rehab services along with physician care right there as part of daily life, and the facility operates for profit as part of The Orchards Michigan communities network. The community averages about 112 residents a day with 120 certified beds, providing semi-private and private rooms with monthly rates between $5,500 to $8,500 that come with cable TV, WiFi, dining room access, and entrances that feature safety and handicap-accessible options, and their maintenance and safety features include an active sprinkler system and kitchenettes in resident rooms. The staff provides basic needs support and helps with dressing, grooming, bathing, and toileting, plus there's walking and wheelchair help and personal care assistants always available. Residents can use the fitness center, salon and barbershop, game and activity room, and enjoy social events, arts and crafts, and different education programs, plus they offer event spaces and meeting room rentals, and there's food and limited retail on-site too. The Orchards Michigan - Samaritan also provides health care support like wound care, podiatry, medication management, occupational therapy, and infection control services, assisted living medication management, and transportation. There are expert guidance and some resources available for family caregivers, as well as employment training, education resources, and human services. The place accepts long-term care insurance and offers everyday services like laundry, housekeeping, and meals.

    The facility has a nurse turnover rate of 65.2% and staff nurses spend an average of 3.37 hours each day with every resident. There have been 29 total deficiencies noted in inspection reports, including for nursing coverage, infection control, and for environmental issues like keeping the space clean, safe, and comfortable, and there are regulations and emergency procedures in place along with privacy policies like HIPAA. The community uses online visit options and has a website for families to check in or learn more, and it's also connected to the Certified Assisted Living Director program, licensing resources, and CALD classes. Families who look at review sites will see that The Orchards Michigan - Samaritan has a rating of 3.6 from 21 reviews, which is right in the middle, and while there are efforts to improve and provide many different care choices for residents, there's inspection documentation about care quality that's easy to look up. The facility keeps a focus on building for the community's future and supports individual needs with a range of services and activities, but like any nursing home, it comes with its own set of strengths and challenges.

    People often ask...

    The Orchards Michigan - Samaritan offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    No, The Orchards Michigan - Samaritan does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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