Galtier a Villa Center

Galtier a Villa Center is located in the large metropolitan area of Saint Paul, Minnesota. With an overall grade of B+, this looks like a very good nursing home. Impressively, the facilities in Saint Paul received high grades across the board, making this one of the better places in Minnesota to find a nursing home. Fortunately, this facility did not have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. When determining our nursing grades, we assess both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

The next category we graded is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Short-term care grades are often used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 38.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home, which is below average.

The final area we rated is long-term care. We awarded this facility a decent grade in that category, with a B-. Although this isn't as high as a few of its other scores, it is nevertheless not a bad grade. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.94915 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 2.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most facilities due to it having some more complicated patients.