Emmanuel Nursing Home

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.