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Souris Valley Care Center

Nursing Home
Assisted Living

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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300 Main St S,
Velva ND 58790

(701) 829-2874

84.4% estimated occupancy ¹

Souris Valley Care Center is a small non-profit nursing home located in Velva, North Dakota. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B-. A grade of this caliber requires some respectable scores. You can definitely do worse than this place. We were also pleased to find that this nursing home received consistently decent grades in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Oncology Care
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Lymphedema Care
Aquatic Therapy

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Facility Inspections

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Nurse Quality

We also wanted to note that this facility received an impressive grade of B in nursing. Our nursing grade is mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

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Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home's third most favorable area turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. In the category of long-term care, we analyze the quantity of care offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more sophisticated services. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 94.5946 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Short-term Care Quality

The final area we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home was given a C in this category. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Souris Valley Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Souris Valley Care Center, 6.52% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by remaining in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Souris Valley Care Center, 6.08% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Souris Valley Care Center, 4.17% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term residents who have had urinary tract infections. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Souris Valley Care Center, 22.38% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Souris Valley Care Center, 4.86% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Souris Valley Care Center, 7.63% of Patients

This is the percent of residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Souris Valley Care Center, 95.42% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Souris Valley Care Center, 15.49% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Souris Valley Care Center, 19.83% of Residents

This is the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Souris Valley Care Center, 0.3 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Souris Valley Care Center, 19.83% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Souris Valley Care Center, 9.69% of Patients

This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure short-term care.