Gil-Mor Manor

Gil-Mor Manor is the sole option we identified in Morgan, Minnesota. This facility is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. It was given one of the highest grades that we offer. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes nationally. If you scroll down, you can see this place's category ratings, which are also strong.

On top of performing well overall, this facility also received nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a dominant long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this facility's second strongest category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given a top-shelf grade of A- in our short-term care category. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. It does not appear that this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. This place was above average in this metric with 54.1 percent of its patients returning home.

In the final category, this facility also was awarded an excellent nursing grade, with a grade of B+. This completed a first-rate report card. We looked at the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in determining our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.