Galtier a Villa Center

On top of earning a great overall grade, this nursing home also received an elite nursing rating. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an A. The nursing rating analyzes many components, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 Minnesota in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning residents more often.

This nursing home also performed well in inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with a score of A-. Few nursing homes with an overall score in this range performed as well in multiple categories. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This facility is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this area. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is frequently a useful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 4.3 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Moving on to the last area, this facility was given a high-end long-term care grade. This nursing home did not prove to have any weak categories. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the data points we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 67.44966 percent of its residents. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.