Sibley Mem Hosp Renaissance

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 grades are typically used to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

To complement its top-shelf accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for its long-term care grade. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This facility is head and heels above most nursing homes in this category.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. When calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned an impressive grade of A-. This topped off a straight A report card for this nursing home. Inspection ratings are based on several data points located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider 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.