Morton County Senior Living Community

While we gave this facility a poor overall score, we actually gave it a fairly respectable grade in nursing, where it received a B-. This was at least better than its other category grades. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

This nursing home's short-term care grade turns out to be one of its more favorable grades. The nursing home was given a grade of C in this area. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 3.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.

This nursing home's next best area turned out to be long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a C. In our long-term care rating, we focus on the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, along with some qualitative measures. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 94.26752 percent of its patients, which is a very solid datapoint. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we looked at was inspections. Unfortunately, this nursing home didn't receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F. When a facility has this bad of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular facility was assessed 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.