Emmanuel Nursing Home
1415 Madison Avenue, Detroit Lakes MN 56501 · (218) 847-4486 · 88.13% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Emmanuel Nursing Home is one of just two available facilities located in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the highest-rated nursing homes we found. Receiving an A+ in our rating system requires superb performance across the board. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as one of the top 500 best nursing homes in the United States. If you look below, you can see this nursing home's category scores, which look to be equally strong as its overall grade.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 102 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Our nursing score consists of a handful of datapoints, however, the primary one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by these figures. On top of offering high levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in the country in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
An additional reason we graded this nursing home so favorably is that it was awarded an A+ short-term care score. This is flat out as dominant as it gets in this category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This nursing home provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we looked at. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in the nation with 68.6 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
The third area we looked at is long-term care. Adding to its superb resume, this facility also performed well in that category. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A for that category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the very impressive nursing care provided by this facility, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.022804 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Facility Inspections
Another impressive feature for this facility is its inspection rating. In that area, we gave this facility an impressive grade of A, wrapping up its straight A performance. Our inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Emmanuel Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients which have new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term patients who sustained a fall which caused serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents suffering from cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better