Dunseith Com Nursing Home

To pair with its favorable overall score, we awarded this place an A for our inspections rating. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home performed well in the category of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a score of A- for that category, which is one of our most impressive grades. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.69893 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility was given a favorable short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B. Short-term care ratings are important for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The last area we graded was nursing. This nursing home was given an impressive nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of B. This facility truly didn't have any weak grades. Our nursing category weighs a handful of data points, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.