St Anthony Park Home

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, this turned out to be its best category. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Minnesota in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident even once per day.

On the list of its many dominant grades, this nursing home received first-rate short-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A in this area. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility 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 measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last area, this facility also was given a very strong long-term care score, with a B+. This completed a first-rate report card. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 85.198555 percent of its patients, which is a bit lower than we were hoping for. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.