Menig Nursing Home is a small hospital-based nursing home in Randolph Center, Vermont. We awarded this facility an A overall grade, ranking it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. In our view, this facility should be a great choice for just about anybody. As you will find below, this nursing home also performed well in our category scores. It would be hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.
Menig Nursing Home
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. The nursing grade includes numerous subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Facility Inspections
This facility has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received a superb score of A in our long-term care category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the final category, this nursing home was given a high-end short-term care grade. Even though this wasn't as elite as several of its other category grades, this remains one of the better scores we offer. In computing our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Menig Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Menig Nursing Home, 6.83% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term patients who developed pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Menig Nursing Home, 4.61% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls which result in injury are often caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Menig Nursing Home, 2.86% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term patients that had a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric may be misleading for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Menig Nursing Home, 15.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Menig Nursing Home, 15.83% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are typically given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Menig Nursing Home, 12.18% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Menig Nursing Home, 95.68% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Menig Nursing Home, 18.04% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Menig Nursing Home, 23.81% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Menig Nursing Home, 1.05 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is key to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Menig Nursing Home, 23.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Gifford Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 3.36 miles away44 South Main Street Randolph Vermont 05060Voluntary non-profit - Private(802) 728-4441
Nearby Dialysis
- University of Vermont Medical Center Dialysis Berlin18.6 miles awayCentral Vermont Hospital / Renal Dialysis Unit 130 Fisher Road, Floor 3 / P.O.box 547 Barre Vermont 05641Dialysis Stations: 9 (802) 225-7033