Divine Providence Health Center

Divine Providence Health Center is a very-small non-profit nursing home located in Ivanhoe, Minnesota. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded nursing homes we looked at. In fact, it received our very best rating. We were impressed enough to rank this nursing home as one of the 50 best facilities in Minnesota. Finally, this appears to be a very consistent nursing home with consistently strong grades in all four of the major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing score consists of a handful of components, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular facility provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This was one of the more impressive totals we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these statistics are impressive. On top of offering high levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Minnesota in this category. This is typically an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers could be prevented by offering better nursing care and having a policy of turning residents at least once a day.

We also awarded this facility a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to considering the impressive quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff at this nursing home, we also were pleased by the facility's vaccination data. For example, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility was given an extremely favorable short-term care score. We gave it a grade of A- in that area, giving this facility straight A's. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One of this place's strengths is that it provides more than an hour of care per day from registered nurses per resident. This is the gold standard for this area, as it's roughly 1.5 times higher than the average place's level of registered nurse staffing. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.