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Aurora Brule Nursing Home

  • Nursing Home
  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-minus
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Aurora Brule Nursing Home's website

408 South Johnston Street,
White Lake SD 57383

(605) 249-2216

98.25% estimated occupancy 1

Aurora Brule Nursing Home is a senior living facility located in White Lake, South Dakota. The city has a population of 732 people. This facility received an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road rating. Based on all of the relevant data, there are certainly much worse facilities out there. The best part of this facility's report card is is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

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

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in South Dakota Awards 2020

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Top Nursing Home in South Dakota Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it a grade of A-. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

We also gave this nursing home a strong score in short-term care. This facility received a B in this area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is generally a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. In calculating our nursing scores, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provides only 0 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Lastly, nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

Switching gears to the next area, this facility was given a respectable long-term care score of C. Our long-term care ratings are more important for individuals requiring more traditional assistance related to personal care. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home vaccinated 99.21875 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable total. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Aurora Brule Nursing Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: F

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 16.28% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 3.91% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric indicates the percentage of long-term residents which have sustained a fall which caused major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: F

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 6.45% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric could also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 28.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 20.19% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are commonly used to treat residents suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 11.86% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A-minus

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 99.61% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 11% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the decline of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 22.8% of Residents

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

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 22.8% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 4.42% of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-minus

In Aurora Brule Nursing Home, 85.34% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.