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Ecumen North Branch

  • Nursing Home
  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A-plus
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5379 -383rd Street,
North Branch MN 55056

(651) 829-0117

42.83% estimated occupancy 1

Ecumen North Branch is in North Branch, Minnesota, a city with 13,546 people. With an A+ overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top five percent of all nursing homes in the country. We really can not say enough great things about this facility. Finally, this proved to be a very consistent nursing home with consistently strong scores in all four of our categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • No Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Registered Staff Hours

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Nurse Quality

Grade: A-plus

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients and the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

In addition, this facility was given dominant marks in the category of long-term care. As a result, it was given one of our best scores in that category with a score of A+. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

This facility has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not deem 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.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

Moving on to our next category, this nursing home was awarded an excellent short-term care grade. We gave it an A in that category, rounding out a straight A profile. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is generally a useful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Ecumen North Branch Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Ecumen North Branch, 6.38% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that suffer from pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Ecumen North Branch, 0.98% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often linked to lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Ecumen North Branch, 4.04% of Patients had UTIs

This figure tells you the percentage of long-term patients that have suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indicator of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Ecumen North Branch, 11.34% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used to treat a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Ecumen North Branch, 1.41% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Ecumen North Branch, 3.23% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients demonstrating signs of depression. Higher levels of depression could be an indicator lower quality care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Ecumen North Branch, 97.62% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Ecumen North Branch, 10% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Ecumen North Branch, 13.77% of Residents

This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who remained mobile levels.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Ecumen North Branch, 13.77% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In Ecumen North Branch, 28.18% of Patients

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-minus

In Ecumen North Branch, 84.94% of Resident

This is the percent of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Cambridge Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.91 miles away701 South Dellwood Avenue Cambridge Minnesota 55008Voluntary non-profit - Private(763) 689-7700
  • Fairview Lakes Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 12.6 miles away5200 Fairview Boulevard Wyoming Minnesota 55092Voluntary non-profit - Private(763) 389-6481
  • St Croix Regional Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 18.52 miles away235 State Street Saint Croix Falls Wisconsin 54024Voluntary non-profit - Private(715) 483-0556

Nearby Dialysis

  • Centracare Kidney Program - Cambridge11.84 miles away520 Sw 11th Ave South Bldg Cambridge Minnesota 55008Dialysis Stations: 15 (763) 263-7390
  • Davita - Wyoming Dialysis12.7 miles away5657 257th St Wyoming Minnesota 55092Dialysis Stations: 12 (651) 408-8938
  • St Croix Falls Dialysis of Davita18.86 miles away744 Louisiana St East Saint Croix Falls Wisconsin 54024Dialysis Stations: 9 (715) 483-1555

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=245370