Menno-Olivet Care Center

With an address in Menno, South Dakota, Menno-Olivet Care Center is the lone option located there. After receiving an A+ overall grade, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the top 25 facilities in South Dakota. Based on our analysis, you can not go wrong here. This nursing home also received consistently good grades in all of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for inspections. Our inspection scores are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This first-rate nursing home also fared very well in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A+. Very few nursing homes fared better in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 75.72816 percent of its residents. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this nursing home 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 facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Of this total, more than one fourth of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. We apply more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses in determining our nursing scores. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we analyzed was short-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B+. This finished off an elite report card. Not many facilities earned a B+ or higher in every single category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. When we assessed this place's nursing hours, we found it provided significantly more care from registered nurses than most facilities. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients 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 facility on a permanent basis.