Regina Senior Living

Regina Senior Living is a small non-profit facility located in Hastings, Minnesota. With an overall grade of A+, this facility is one of the most elite nursing homes we looked at. We rated this facility as one of the 100 best facilities in Minnesota, which is a distinguished list. Headlining this facility's stellar report card is its short-term care score, which is addressed in the next section.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Minnesota in this area with 70.3 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was strong in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Very few facilities fared better in this area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 95.2381 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the final category we scored, this facility was given an impressive grade grade of A in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home completed a straight A report card. Nursing scores are largely tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by both of these statistics. On top of offering high levels of care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place outpaced the national average.