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Minnewaska Community Health Services

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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605 Main Street, PO Box 40,
Starbuck MN 56381

(320) 239-2217

70.76% estimated occupancy 1

Minnewaska Community Health Services is a facility in Starbuck, Minnesota. This city has a total of 2,458 people. With an A overall grade, we rated this facility in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the United States. We really couldn't find many negative things to say about this place. Its grades are just impeccable. This nursing home also received phenomenal scores in all four of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • Non profit - Church related
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management

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Nurse Quality

Grade: A-plus

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. The nursing grade analyzes quite a few subcategories, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning residents even once per day.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

Among its many high-end scores, this facility was awarded an excellent short-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A- in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This area is considered to be a solid assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

Tallying another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A-. Our inspection scores are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

The next area we scored was long-term care, in which this facility was given a B. Believe it or not, this turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. A nursing home is doing something right when their poorest grade still rates higher than most other facilities. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.61702 percent of its patients. This is slightly below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Lastly, this facility 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.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Minnewaska Community Health Services Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 3.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 5.32% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Falls are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: F

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 7.53% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 10.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients which are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some nursing homes need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 15.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that are given antianxiety medication. These drugs are generally given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 1.12% of Patients

This is the percent of residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 95.88% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 21.43% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 23.57% of Residents

This tells you the percent of patients who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 23.57% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 5.27% of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-plus

In Minnewaska Community Health Services, 83.57% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Glacial Ridge HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 7.18 miles away10 4th Avenue Southeast Glenwood Minnesota 56334Government - Hospital District or Authority(320) 634-4521
  • Stevens Community Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 18.18 miles away400 East First Street Morris Minnesota 56267Voluntary non-profit - Private(320) 589-1313
  • Alomere HealthAcute Care Hospitals 19.35 miles away111 17th Avenue East Alexandria Minnesota 56308Government - Local(320) 762-1511

Nearby Dialysis

  • Sanford Dialysis Morris18.2 miles away400 E 1st Street Morris Minnesota 56267Dialysis Stations: 6 (320) 589-2832
  • Centracare Kidney PROG at Douglas County Hosp19.32 miles away111 17th Ave S Alexandria Minnesota 56308Dialysis Stations: 7 (320) 762-1226

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=245537