Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center is a facility located in Benson, Minnesota, a city with a total of 4,693 people. Sporting an overall score of B, this appears to be a very respectable facility. Based on the data we reviewed, you could do much worse than this nursing home. The best aspect of this facility's impressive report card is its short-term care score. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section
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Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
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Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this proved to be a quality facility is that it received a very impressive short-term care grade. Short-term care turned out to be its best category. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more meaningful for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this facility an A-. There are a variety of subcategories included in this category. Most of these factors relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home received its third best category score in the area of inspections. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent inspection reports. We gave this facility a C in this category. Inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates that it dodged the more serious classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we assessed is long-term care, which is this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Sadly, this category hurt the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated only 87.15597 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 8.33% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term care patients which suffered from pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 4.59% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care residents who experienced a fall which caused major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 1.92% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 42.39% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 21.3% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 10% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 87.13% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 20.75% of Patients
This is the percent of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 25.32% of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents who were able to retain mobility.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 25.32% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Meadow Lane Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, 70.2% of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Swift County Benson HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.28 miles away1815 Wisconsin Avenue Benson Minnesota 56215Government - Hospital District or Authority(320) 843-4232