Auburn Home in Waconia

In addition to being a first-rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an A+. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A+. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this area. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. Without having access to information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it ended up being challenging to evaluate it in this area.

In the final area, we awarded this nursing home an A for our long-term care rating. This rounded out a very favorable report card. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 90.52631 percent of its patients. This is somewhat lower than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.