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Oak Hills Living Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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1314 Eighth Street North,
New Ulm MN 56073

(507) 359-2026

91.8% estimated occupancy 1

Oak Hills Living Center is a senior living facility in New Ulm, Minnesota, a city with a total of 16,759 people. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the best facilities we found. A grade of this caliber requires first-rate scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the United States. As you can find below, this nursing home performed equally well in our category grades. We give this place two thumbs up!

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. In computing our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an A. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

In addition, this facility also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best scores in that category, with an A-. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

Moving on to our next category, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. We gave it an A- in that area. This rounded out truly elite profile. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Oak Hills Living Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In Oak Hills Living Center, 10.86% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Oak Hills Living Center, 1.02% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are often associated with poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Oak Hills Living Center, 3.41% of Patients had UTIs

This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that suffered from a UTI. UTI's may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic could also be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Oak Hills Living Center, 15.65% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Oak Hills Living Center, 7.84% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In Oak Hills Living Center, 0.7% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A-minus

In Oak Hills Living Center, 99.36% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Oak Hills Living Center, 9.56% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Oak Hills Living Center, 17.63% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Oak Hills Living Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Oak Hills Living Center, 17.63% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-minus

In Oak Hills Living Center, 8.41% of Patients

This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-minus

In Oak Hills Living Center, 87.01% of Resident

This metric measures the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.

Nearby Hospitals

  • New Ulm Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 0.25 miles away1324 Fifth North Street New Ulm Minnesota 56073Voluntary non-profit - Private(507) 217-5000
  • Sleepy Eye Municipal HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 12.37 miles away400 Fourth Avenue Northwest Sleepy Eye Minnesota 56085Government - Local(507) 794-3571
  • Madelia Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.69 miles away121 Drew Avenue Southeast Madelia Minnesota 56062Voluntary non-profit - Other(507) 642-3255

Nearby Dialysis

  • Atlantic Dialysis LLC0.58 miles away701 N Broadway St New Ulm Minnesota 56073Dialysis Stations: 12 (507) 354-1216