Sibley Mem Hosp Renaissance

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. This is as good as it gets in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its first-rate accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. This facility knocked it out of the park in this area.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. There are a variety of criteria included in this area. Many of these factors are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place 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 the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient at least once a day.

Lastly, this facility has earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. This is one of the few nursing homes in the nation to receive an A- or better in all four categories. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.