Presbyterian Homes of Bloomington

On top of earning a great overall score, this facility also received an elite nursing grade. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. The nursing score is based on quite a few subcategories, however, the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 Minnesota in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

In addition, this facility also performed well in inspections, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our best grades. These inspection grades 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. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility truly excelled in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Not many nursing homes performed more favorably in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is often a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility's weakest area is long-term care, which is the final area we scored. We gave it a lowly F in this category. In spite of several impressive scores in other areas, this score is still a bit disappointing so we wanted to point it out. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 96.03524 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.