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Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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2501 Rice Lake Road,
Duluth MN 55811

(218) 625-6400

85% estimated occupancy 1

Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Duluth, Minnesota. This facility received an uninspiring overall grade of D in our grading scheme. In our view, we'd struggle to recommend this facility. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss nursing in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Partnership
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Lymphedema Care
  • Aquatic Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2022)
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Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B+ in nursing. Nursing ratings are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.3 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: C

This nursing home's next highest area is its short-term care grade, where it was given a grade of C. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 3.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

The third best category we awarded this facility in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In our long-term care rating, we look at the sheer quantity of services offered by a nursing home, along with a series of quality measures. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 86.38614 percent of its residents, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Facility Inspections

Grade: F

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. With places that received this poor of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was assessed a category J or K deficiency, which rank among the worst categories of deficiencies. This generally means that CMS uncovered a deficiency which puts resident safety or health in immediate jeopardy. Lastly, we want to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines recently of over $50,000. This often indicates that inspectors became fed up after several years of failed inspections.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 8.2% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 3.47% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents who had falls leading to major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 2.51% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. However, this datapoint could also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 20.42% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 12.8% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who were given antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 1.23% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting depressive symptoms. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 88.06% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient health.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 20.55% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Some believe this is a measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 26.99% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 26.99% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 27.18% 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

Grade: C

In Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center, 71.6% of Resident

This is the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with better rehabilitation services.

Scores for Duluth, MN

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B

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Nearby Dialysis

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=245366