Mn Veterans Home Silver Bay

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually flawless. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings aren't the end of the world.

To complement its elite performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is generally used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. There are a variety of factors within this category. Many of the criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home 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 frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents at least once a day.

The final area we assessed is long-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B. Although this ended up being its worst category rating, this is still a quality score. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.49749 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.