Ashley Medical Center Nursing Home

Located in Ashley, North Dakota, Ashley Medical Center Nursing Home is the sole nursing home we identified in the city. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is one of the most impressive grades we offer. A grade of this caliber requires first-rate scores across the board. We also want to point out that this facility is located in a hospital. Typically, this indicates that more intensive healthcare services are available. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive long-term care rating, which you can find in the next section.

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the well above average quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this facility, we also were happy with the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.66 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facility also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This grade is based on the nursing home's government inspections. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. The nursing rating assesses a handful of datapoints, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which was among the higher figures we found. Lastly, this facility also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and having a system of moving residents even once per day.

Turning to our final category, this facility was awarded an extremely favorable short-term care grade. Even though this was not nearly as dominant as several of its other scores, this remains one of the more impressive grades a facility can receive. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most important for those in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.