Essentia Health Oak Crossing

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. There are many criteria included in this area. Many of these factors relate to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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.

Another strength for this nursing home was long-term care, where it was awarded an A+ score. This is simply as strong as it gets in this category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.854965 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 less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The fourth area we scored was short-term care. This incredible facility also excelled in this area, in which it was awarded an A+. This completed a flawless report card of straight A+'s. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.