Five Counties Nursing Home

Five Counties Nursing Home is a facility located in Lemmon, South Dakota. This city has a total of 1,921 people. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ facility. Receiving an A+ in our rating scheme requires superb scores across the board. In fact, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the 25 best nursing homes in South Dakota. This place also received very consistent scores in all of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing grades are largely associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a resident even once per day.

Another reason we rated this facility so highly is that it was awarded an A+ long-term care score. This is just about as dominant as it gets in this area. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 95.80419 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the senior population. The last datapoint we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.65 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. 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 the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our last area, this facility also was given a first-rate short-term care grade, with a B+. This wrapped up a very strong profile. Short-term care scores are vital for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.