Miner Nursing Center

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent government inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facilities second most favorable area was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this area. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 71.15385 percent of its residents. This is many points less than the national average. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Unfortunately, this facility's third best category is short-term care. However, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared somewhat badly. In our short-term care grade, we strive to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.

This nursing home's weakest area was nursing, which is the final category we scored. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area. Even with several solid scores in other areas, this score is nevertheless concerning so we wanted to draw your attention to it. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This facility offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This nursing home also had abysmal marks in several of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this metric. This is quite concerning when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing grade.