Chosen Valley Care Center
1102 Liberty Street Southeast, Chatfield MN 55923 · (507) 867-4220 · 94.1% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Chosen Valley Care Center is located in Chatfield, Minnesota. This facility appears to be among the better facilities we looked at. A score of this caliber requires high-end marks across the board. You really can't do much better than this place. This nursing home was also given strong grades in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 78 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home has earned nearly flawless government inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. When computing our nursing scores, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was above the national average. Lastly, this facility also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and having a system of turning patients at least once a day.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to another strength for this facility, we gave them one of our stronger scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.62264 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.44 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our last category, this facility was given an extremely favorable short-term care grade. We gave it a B+ in that category, finishing off one of our more favorable profiles. Short-term care grades are critical for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. This place performed decently in this area, with 48.5 percent of its patients returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Chosen Valley Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of long-term patients which have sustained a fall leading to serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that sustained 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 poor nursing care. However, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients which are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients exhibiting signs of depression. Some argue this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels. Some experts believe that mobility is important for patients mental and physical health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better