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Diamond Care Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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Diamond Care Center's website

901 N Main St Post Office Box 300,
Bridgewater SD 57319

(605) 729-2525

94.72% estimated occupancy 1

With an address in Bridgewater, South Dakota, Diamond Care Center is the only facility we were able to find in the city. This nursing home proved to be a respectable facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our ratings, there are definitely much worse facilities out there. The best part of this facility's report card was its exemplary inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • No Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 92.30769 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a decent figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

Another concern was the F this nursing home received in the area of short-term care. Short-term care grades are generally employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care grade.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

This nursing home's weakest category is nursing, which is the final category we scored. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area. Even with multiple decent grades in other categories, this grade is still of a concern so we would like to to make sure you are aware. The nursing category assesses quite a few components, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular place provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This statistic is well below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility had really bad scores in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents having falls which led to major injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is quite concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing rating.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Diamond Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Diamond Care Center, 4.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients that suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Diamond Care Center, 5.98% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffered falls resulting in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indication of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Diamond Care Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often the result of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this statistic could be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Diamond Care Center, 21.78% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Diamond Care Center, 12.87% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Diamond Care Center, 2.65% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents showing signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Diamond Care Center, 89.49% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Diamond Care Center, 19.8% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and continence. Some would argue this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-plus

In Diamond Care Center, 32.43% of Residents

This metric tracks the percent of long-term stay residents that maintained mobility.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Diamond Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: F

In Diamond Care Center, 32.43% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-plus

In Diamond Care Center, 10.11% of Patients

This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In Diamond Care Center, 71.16% of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.