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Guardian Angels Care Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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400 Evans Avenue,
Elk River MN 55330

(763) 441-1213

87.16% estimated occupancy 1

Guardian Angels Care Center is an average-sized non-profit facility in Elk River, Minnesota. We gave this facility an A overall grade, ranking it in the top 20 percent of all facilities in the nation. You flat out can't do any better than this place. As you will find below, this facility also performed just fine in our category scores. It's hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • Non profit - Church related
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Awards

Best Nursing Home in Elk River, Minnesota badge

Best Nursing Home in Elk River, Minnesota Awards 2019

Best Nursing Home in Elk River, Minnesota badge

Best Nursing Home in Elk River, Minnesota Awards 2020

Best Nursing Home in Elk River, Minnesota badge

Best Nursing Home in Elk River, Minnesota Awards 2021

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in our short-term care category. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

The last area we looked at was long-term care. In this category, we gave this facility a strong grade of B. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Guardian Angels Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-minus

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 4.49% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that suffer from pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 4.86% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are often caused by lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 5.3% of Patients had UTIs

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients that have suffered from a UTI. While a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 11.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 4.8% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who are administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 0.74% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 99.7% of Patients

This is the percent of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 12.15% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 15.65% of Residents

Measures the percent of long-term care residents that were able to retain mobility. Some would argue that mobility is vital to residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is important to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 15.65% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 14.66% of Patients

This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In Guardian Angels Care Center, 69.04% of Resident

Measures the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some believe that this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Centracare Health - MonticelloCritical Access Hospitals 10.67 miles away1013 Hart Boulevard Monticello Minnesota 55362Voluntary non-profit - Private(763) 295-2945
  • Maple Grove HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.58 miles away9875 Hospital Drive Osseo Minnesota 55369Voluntary non-profit - Private(763) 581-1000
  • Mercy HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.58 miles away4050 Coon Rapids Blvd Minneapolis Minnesota 55433Voluntary non-profit - Private(762) 236-8100
  • Fairview Northland Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.52 miles away911 Northland Dr Princeton Minnesota 55371Voluntary non-profit - Other(763) 389-6481

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fmc Dialysis - Central Mn Regional Dialysis1.49 miles away17315 Zane St Nw Elk River Minnesota 55330Dialysis Stations: 13 (763) 241-6832
  • Centracare Kidney Program at Big Lake7.47 miles away16830 - 198th Ave Nw Big Lake Minnesota 55309Dialysis Stations: 9 (763) 263-7320
  • Fmc - Coon Rapids12.09 miles away3465 Northdale Blvd Nw Minneapolis Minnesota 55448Dialysis Stations: 12 (763) 862-6088
  • Fresenius Medical Care - Champlin12.29 miles away12339 Champlin Dr Champlin Minnesota 55316Dialysis Stations: 24 (763) 421-1032
  • Maple Grove Dialysis of Davita15.02 miles away15655 Grove Cir N Osseo Minnesota 55369Dialysis Stations: 14 (763) 420-2804
  • Fmc - Round Lake Dialysis15.06 miles away3777 Coon Rapids Blvd Nw Ste 120 Minneapolis Minnesota 55433Dialysis Stations: 13 (763) 323-1234
  • Coon Rapids Dialysis of Davita15.42 miles away3960 Coon Rapids Blvd, Suite 309 Minneapolis Minnesota 55433Dialysis Stations: 16 (763) 421-8717
  • Fmc - Maple Grove Dialysis16.94 miles away7365 Kirkwood Ct N, Ste 135 Osseo Minnesota 55369Dialysis Stations: 12 (763) 494-0316