Miner Nursing Center

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless health inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a positive grade in long-term care. This facility earned a grade of B+ in this area, which turns out to be one of our more favorable grades. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Based on the long-term care data we were able to find for this nursing home, you could certainly do much worse than this place.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this subcategory. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a patient more often.

The next category we rated is short-term care. We gave this nursing home a D in short-term care, rendering this the nursing home's least impressive area. In our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in many staffing metrics we focus on. In fact, it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.