Country Manor Health & Rehab Center
520 First Street Northeast, Sartell MN 56377 · (320) 253-1920 · 92.6% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
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.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 165 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
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.
Short-term Care Quality
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Country Manor Health & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better