Southside Care Center
2644 Aldrich Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55408 · (612) 872-4233 · 84.11% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Southside Care Center is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which has more than 20 nursing homes. This is a solid facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our assessment, there are certainly far worse nursing homes out there. One of the better aspects of this facility's profile is its strong nursing rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 17 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
We awarded this facility one of our better scores in nursing, with an A-. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. We weighed the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This facility provided 2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Short-term Care Quality
Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades was in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B. It actually outpaced most nursing homes in this area. Our short-term care grade is often employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also earned a very favorable inspection grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our last area, this nursing home did not fare very well. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is its worst category. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 63.636364 percent of its residents. This is multiple points lower than what we expected. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Southside Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic could be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents who are showing symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better