Mcintosh Senior Living

Mcintosh Senior Living is located in Mcintosh, Minnesota. The city has 1,160 people. With an overall grade of A+, this facility is among the top nursing homes we found. Based on the data we reviewed, you can't go wrong with this facility. If you scroll down, you will see this nursing home's category scores, which are also strong.

On top of receiving an elite overall score, this facility received an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to be given multiple A+ category grades. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of offering well above average levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This figure is also much higher than the average nursing home. This combination proved to be effective as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing scores are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 4.7 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which was among the better totals we found. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

In the final area, we awarded this facility an A+ for our short-term care grade. This completed an elite profile. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is frequently a useful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.