Edenbrook of Edina

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this facility an A. There are quite a few datapoints within this grade. Most of the criteria reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient more frequently.

Among this facility's other achievements is its superb short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our best scores in that area, with a score of A-. In our short-term care category, we strive to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home earned a good score in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We believe that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

The next area we rated was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded an above average long-term care grade this year, with a grade of C. Even though this isn't as good as many of its other category grades, this is still a respectable score in this category. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinates 94.230774 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.