Mahnomen Health Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. The nursing rating considers a host of datapoints. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

To complement its first-rate assessments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care score. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 92.660545 percent of its patients. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also received a dominant short-term care score. This actually turned out to be this facility's third most impressive category score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Short-term care grades are often employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Finally, this nursing home has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. This is one of the few places in the state to receive an A- or better in all four categories. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.