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Pelican Valley Health Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
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211 East Mill Avenue,
Pelican Rapids MN 56572

(218) 863-2991

82.12% estimated occupancy 1

Pelican Valley Health Center is a small government-owned facility located in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota. This facility is among the most elite nursing homes we assessed. A grade in this range requires first-rate scores across the board. In fact, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the top 100 facilities in Minnesota. This is an impressive feat in a state with a long list of high-end nursing homes. As you will see below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category ratings. It's hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Government - Hospital district
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in Minnesota Awards 2019

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Top Nursing Home in Minnesota Awards 2020

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Top Nursing Home in Minnesota Awards 2021

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Nurse Quality

Grade: A-plus

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Minnesota in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning residents more frequently.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

This facility has also received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

This facility also was awarded a impressive short-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being this facility's third most impressive category score. In that area, this facility received a score of A. With our short-term care rating, we try to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

The final area we looked at was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B+. This topped off a very strong profile. Very few nursing homes earned a B+ or better in each of our categories. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 85.43689 percent of its residents. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Pelican Valley Health Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-plus

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 2.67% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 1.94% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which have experienced a fall which resulted in major injury. We use this statistic in computing nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 1.94% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols can minimize the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 6.32% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 5.1% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 7.32% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 91.78% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines vital to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 9.38% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: D

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 6.94% of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term patients who retained mobility levels. Some argue that mobility is vital to patients physical and mental health.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 6.94% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In Pelican Valley Health Center, 91.68% of Resident

This metric measures the percent of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements.