Country Manor Health & Rehab Center

Country Manor Health & Rehab Center is a large non-profit nursing home located in Sartell, Minnesota. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ rated facility, which is our very best rating. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top five percentile of all nursing homes in the country. If you look further down this page, you can see this nursing home's category grades, which are just as strong as its overall rating.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to alert you to the fact that this facility was superb in our short-term care rating. We gave them an impressive score of A+ in this area. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. This place is above average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the country in this area with 61.4 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. There are quite a few criteria included in this area. Most of these datapoints are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These are generally good measures of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home also excelled in the long-term care category. We gave it an A for that category. This wrapped up a straight A profile. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to offering well above average levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.565216 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.69 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.