Centracare Health - Monticello

Centracare Health - Monticello is a facility located in Monticello, Minnesota, which has a population of 18,089 people. Featuring an overall rating of A+, this facility is one of the most elite facilities we looked at. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top ten percent of all nursing homes in the United States. Headlining this nursing home's stellar profile is its short-term care grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. In forming these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility with 73.1 percent of its patients returning home.

We also want to point out the fact that this facility was awarded a strong score of A in our long-term care category. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of offering very favorable levels of nursing care, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.81889 percent of its patients. This percentage is also significantly better than most nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.71 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best grades in that category, with an impressive grade of A. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The final area we scored is nursing, where this nursing home was given an A. This finished off a very favorable profile. Very few facilities earned an A- or higher in every category. In computing our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This particular facility provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was one of the better totals we found. Furthermore, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering high levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With below 5 percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category.