Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake looks like it is one of a list of 31 facilities in Saint Paul, Minnesota. This city has more options compared to most cities in Minnesota. This turns out to be a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. Remarkably, the facilities in Saint Paul received high scores across the board, making this one of the better places in Minnesota to find a nursing home. The best part of this nursing home's impressive profile was its short-term care rating. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph
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Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake
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- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Aquatic Therapy
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Short-term Care Quality
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 determining our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This score is generally a fair measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. Our nursing grade consists of many factors, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Facility Inspections
We also wanted to emphasize this nursing home's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we rated was long-term care, which proved to be a weak link for this facility. We gave this nursing home a D in long-term care, making this the nursing home's weakest grade. We would nevertheless recommend that you consider all of a nursing home's grades. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 42.244225 percent of its residents. This is multiple points lower than what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 9.05% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term residents which developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are an barometer of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 4.95% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 3.72% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 26.9% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 7.57% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 4.8% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 69.92% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 13.36% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 25.2% of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 25.2% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 11.52% of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake, 73.05% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Saint Paul, MN
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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Nearby Hospitals
- Healtheast St John's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.77 miles away1575 Beam Avenue Saint Paul Minnesota 55109Voluntary non-profit - Private(651) 232-7000
- Regions HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.49 miles away640 Jackson Street Saint Paul Minnesota 55101Voluntary non-profit - Private(651) 254-1616
- Lakeview Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.15 miles away927 West Churchill Street Stillwater Minnesota 55082Voluntary non-profit - Private(651) 430-5330
- United HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.58 miles away333 North Smith Avenue Saint Paul Minnesota 55102Voluntary non-profit - Private(651) 241-8810
- University of Minnesota Medical Center, FairviewAcute Care Hospitals 13.27 miles away2450 Riverside Avenue Minneapolis Minnesota 55454Voluntary non-profit - Private(612) 273-3000
- Hennepin County Medical Center 1Acute Care Hospitals 14 miles away701 Park Avenue Minneapolis Minnesota 55415Government - Local(612) 873-3629
- Children's Hospitals & Clinics of MnChildrens 14.64 miles away2525 Chicago Avenue South Minneapolis Minnesota 55404Voluntary non-profit - Private(612) 813-6112
- Abbott Northwestern HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.81 miles away800 East 28th Street Minneapolis Minnesota 55407Voluntary non-profit - Private(612) 863-4457
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Maplewood Heights3.35 miles away1725 Legacy Pkwy E Ste 200 Saint Paul Minnesota 55109CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (651) 748-7989
- Maplewood Dialysis of Davita3.94 miles away2785 White Bear Ave, Suite 201 Saint Paul Minnesota 55109Dialysis Stations: 16 (651) 779-2222
- Arden Hills Dialysis of Davita6.53 miles away3900 Northwoods Dr Ste 110 Saint Paul Minnesota 55112Dialysis Stations: 12 (651) 483-3159
- Fmc Dialysis - Roseville6.86 miles away2045 Rice St Saint Paul Minnesota 55113Dialysis Stations: 13 (651) 489-3312
- Davita Phalen Dialysis8.68 miles away863 Arcade St Saint Paul Minnesota 55106Dialysis Stations: 12 (651) 776-0466
- Davita - Larpenteur Ave Dialysis8.73 miles away1739 Lexington Ave N Saint Paul Minnesota 55113Dialysis Stations: 12 (651) 489-9260
- Fmc Dialysis Services of St Paul8.82 miles away445 Etna Street Suite 60 Saint Paul Minnesota 55106Dialysis Stations: 20 (651) 251-3847
- Fmc Dialysis - New Brighton8.94 miles away2910 Centre Pointe Dr Saint Paul Minnesota 55113Dialysis Stations: 13 (651) 633-1155