Firesteel Healthcare Community

Nursing Home
Independent Living
Assisted Living
Memory Care

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Firesteel Healthcare Community's website

1120 East 7th Avenue,
Mitchell SD 57301

(605) 996-6526

111.44% estimated occupancy ¹

Firesteel Healthcare Community is an average-sized nursing home located in Mitchell, South Dakota. Our scoring scheme was not very kind to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall rating of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Mitchell. The city has just one other nursing home. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Secure Memory Care
Offers Hospice
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Tracheotomy Care
Podiatry
Mental Health
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Optometry
Audiology
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Radiation Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Long-term Care Quality

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our long-term care rating. In calculating our long-term care scores, we look at the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 92.72031 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home's second most favorable score was short-term care, but even there it received just a D in that category. This still happens to be a relatively poor score. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Considering its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this place is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 5.1 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.

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Facility Inspections

Unfortunately, this nursing home received really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing them to receive a lowly F in our inspection category. An F in this area is typically a sign that there were red flags on the nursing home's government inspection reports. For facilities that received this bad of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we need to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently totaling more than $100,000. This usually means that a facility's bad performance spanned more than one year.

Nurse Quality

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility did not perform well here either. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is just about as bad as it gets. The nursing rating assesses quite a few factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Firesteel Healthcare Community Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 6.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 5.62% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are often linked to poor nursing care. Better nursing care can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 3.42% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 19.49% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 15.06% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 4.79% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who are showing signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 95.19% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 16.7% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate the deterioration of a patient's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 19.23% Percentage of Residents

Measures the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 19.23 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 10.33 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Firesteel Healthcare Community, 80.24% Percentage of Resident

This is a measure of the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many argue this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

Avera Queen of PeaceAcute Care Hospitals 0.14 miles away525 N Foster Mitchell South Dakota 57301Voluntary non-profit - Private(605) 995-2000

Nearby Dialysis

Avera Dialysis - Mitchell1.15 miles away1900 Grassland Dr Ste 102 Mitchell South Dakota 57301Dialysis Stations: 12 (605) 995-6730
Mitchell Cmty Dialysis of Davita2.04 miles away819 E Spruce St Ste 100 Mitchell South Dakota 57301Dialysis Stations: 12 (605) 996-0097