Cerenity Residence on Humboldt

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

To complement its first-rate achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for its long-term care score. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. This nursing home is head and heels above most nursing homes in this area.

Another quality feature of this nursing home is its inspection score. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our last area, we gave this nursing home an A- for our nursing grade. This completed a very strong profile. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Minnesota in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.