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St Ottos Care Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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St Ottos Care Center's website

920 Southeast 4th Street,
Little Falls MN 56345

(320) 632-9281

81.97% estimated occupancy 1

St Ottos Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Little Falls, Minnesota. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a phenomenal grade. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. If you look further down this page, you will see this facility's category grades, which are just as impressive as its overall rating.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Individual
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility earned near flawless health inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. We looked at the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in determining our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

Moving on our next category, we gave this facility a score of A- for its short-term care grade. This is a dominant score. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

In the last category we graded, this nursing home received an impressive grade grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility wrapped up a straight A report card. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 96.53847 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

St Ottos Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In St Ottos Care Center, 7.21% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients who developed pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In St Ottos Care Center, 4.23% of Patients had Serious Falls

This measures the percentage of long-term care residents that have had a fall leading to major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: F

In St Ottos Care Center, 7.36% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents who sustained UTI's. UTI's may be an indicator of poor nursing care. However, this datapoint could also be misleading for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In St Ottos Care Center, 10.77% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In St Ottos Care Center, 12.02% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In St Ottos Care Center, 0.81% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High rates of depression may reveal a less hospitable environment.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In St Ottos Care Center, 97.19% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In St Ottos Care Center, 14.43% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the deterioration of a resident's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In St Ottos Care Center, 23.99% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In St Ottos Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In St Ottos Care Center, 23.99% of Residents Rehospitalized

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

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In St Ottos Care Center, 21.97% of Patients

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In St Ottos Care Center, 67.25% of Resident

This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • St Gabriels HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.24 miles away815 Southeast Second Street Little Falls Minnesota 56345Voluntary non-profit - Private(320) 632-5441

Nearby Dialysis

  • Saint Cloud Hospital0.19 miles away808 3rd St Se Suite 160 Little Falls Minnesota 56345Dialysis Stations: 13 (320) 631-4381