North Dakota Veterans Home

On top of performing well in its overall score, this facility received a strong nursing grade. We gave it an A in that area. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its top-shelf profile, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A- in the category. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.45355 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its strong profile, this facility also was awarded a strong short-term care score, with a score of A-. Short-term care grades are typically used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, this nursing home also received top notch inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It does not look like we have deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.