Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs

Nursing Home
Independent Living
Assisted Living

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs's website

2111 West 11th Street,
Yankton SD 57078

(605) 668-8900

90.8% estimated occupancy ¹

Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs is one of a mere two available facilities in Yankton, South Dakota. This proved to be a grade A facility, which is a very elite rating. At the end of the day, this facility is a great choice for most people. As you will find below, this place performed just as well in our category scores. In fact, we gave it straight A's!

Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Medical Transportation

Awards

Top Nursing Home in South Dakota Awards 2019

Top Nursing Home in South Dakota Awards 2020

Best Nursing Home in Yankton, South Dakota Awards 2020

Top Nursing Home in South Dakota Awards 2021

Best Nursing Home in Yankton, South Dakota Awards 2021

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Facility Inspections

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Adding to its top-shelf profile, this facility also received an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

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Nurse Quality

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. The nursing score features numerous datapoints. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 South Dakota in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving patients more frequently.

Long-term Care Quality

In our final area, this nursing home also was awarded a very strong long-term care score, with an A-. This finished off an elite profile. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

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Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 6.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 5.62% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a fall leading to serious injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 3.42% of Patients had UTIs

This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients which suffered from UTI's. UTI's could be an indicator of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric may be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 19.49% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric tells you the percent of long-term care patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 15.06% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric tells you the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 4.79% of Patients

This is the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 95.19% of Patients

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

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 16.7% Percentage of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Some experts believe that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 19.23% Percentage of Residents

This is the percent of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 19.23 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 10.33 Percentage of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Avera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs, 80.24% Percentage of Resident

This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.