Monument Health Sturgis Clinic

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional strong feature for this nursing home is that it was given an impressive short-term care grade. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility was awarded a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a score of B+. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 52.38095 percent of its patients against pneumonia. 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 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we analyzed is nursing, where we gave it an above average grade of B. This facility truly does not have any weak grades. We assessed the licensure of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.