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Fair Meadow Nursing Home

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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Box 8 300 Garfield Avenue Southeast,
Fertile MN 56540

(218) 945-6194

93.57% estimated occupancy 1

Fair Meadow Nursing Home is a facility in Fertile, Minnesota. The city has a population of 1,962 people. With an A overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top ten percentile of all nursing homes in the United States. You really can't do much better than this nursing home. This facility was also given impressive scores in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Government - City
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Meal Delivery
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Peritoneal Dialysis
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-plus

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Nursing grades are mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient even once per day.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

Contributing to its remarkable resume, this nursing home also received a strong short-term care grade, with a score of A. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more critical for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

In the final area, this nursing home also received an impressive long-term care rating, with a grade of B+. This wrapped up a very favorable profile. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Fair Meadow Nursing Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 3.03% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric gauges the percent of long-term residents who developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 2.07% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that had falls which caused serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 4.86% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. More frequent bathing can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 12.41% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for many conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 21.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 10% of Patients

This is the percent of patients showing symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 100% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 6.87% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: C

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 11.74% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' physical and mental health.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 11.74% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Fair Meadow Nursing Home, 5.15% of Patients

This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Essentia Health AdaCritical Access Hospitals 19.98 miles away201 9th Street West Ada Minnesota 56510Voluntary non-profit - Private(218) 784-5000

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=245545