St Benedicts Senior Community is a large non-profit nursing home located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. It looks like this nursing home is among the most impressive facilities we looked at. A score of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. One of the major highlights of this facility's remarkable profile is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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St Benedicts Senior Community
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Hemodialysis
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Blood Administration
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this category with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, this is its second best category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more important for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. The nursing rating features a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we rated was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B-. While this wound up being its worst category rating, this is still not a bad grade. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we scrutinize the personal care offered to a facility's residents. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.68553 percent of its residents, which is a very solid statistic. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Benedicts Senior Community Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 11.16% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 3.77% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who have suffered falls leading to serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 1.89% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care residents who experienced a UTI. UTI's may be an indication of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric could also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 10.19% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 7.83% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 5.23% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 98.53% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these vaccines indispensable.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 16.73% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many in the industry would argue that this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 23.72% of Residents
This is the percentage of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 23.72% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 2.96% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In St Benedicts Senior Community, 75.59% of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many would argue this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- St Cloud HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.19 miles away1406 6th Ave North Saint Cloud Minnesota 56303Voluntary non-profit - Private(320) 255-5661
Nearby Dialysis
- St Cloud Hospital3.89 miles awayHealth Plaza Dialysis 2035 15th St N Ste 220 Saint Cloud Minnesota 56303CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (320) 656-7014