St Johns on Fountain Lake

St Johns on Fountain Lake is located in Albert Lea, Minnesota. This city has a total of 21,228 people. It looks like this facility is a lower end nursing home. A score in this range suggests we found some red flags. Albert Lea received a city grade of B-, so there are some other options in the city worth considering. The only positive thing we can really say about this place is that it did not receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.

While we gave this nursing home a weak overall score, we gave it a somewhat respectable score in the area of inspections, where it received a B-. This was better than its other categories. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. In calculating our nursing scores, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. According to its CMS data, this place provided an average of 5.1 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Roughly one quarter of this care came from registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these figures are higher than average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this metric.

The next category we assessed is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One reason for this place's strong score in this category is that it provides more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

Our final category is long-term care, where we awarded this facility a B- in that category. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's personal care rather than the skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.