Mahnomen Health Center

With an address in Mahnomen, Minnesota, Mahnomen Health Center is the sole nursing home we identified in this city. This nursing home proved to be an A+ facility, which is the best grade that we offer. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top ten percent of all nursing homes in the United States. As you can find below, this facility also performed just fine in our category grades. It would be hard to poke holes in this place's profile.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This place provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an impressive statistic which typically corresponds with higher quality care. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in several quality-based metrics we looked at. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Minnesota in this category. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and having a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.

This high end nursing home also excelled in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A+. Only a small group of nursing homes performed better in this category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 96.3964 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this area. Our inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Switching gears to our last category, this facility was awarded a highly favorable short-term care rating. We gave it a grade of B+ in this category, topping off one of our better report cards. Our short-term care scores are arguably most meaningful for people requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who 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 permanently.