St Therese Tcu North

St Therese Tcu North is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This city is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the country with has a population of 1,022,298 people. This turns out to be an A+ rated facility, which is the very best grade. In fact, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as one of the top 10 nursing homes in Minneapolis. One of the best aspects of this facility's exemplary report card is its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next section.

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more critical for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. The facility supplied about 50% more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average nursing home. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Minnesota in this area with 70.4 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This score is based on the facility's recent inspections. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not 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.

Compounding its first-rate assessment, this facility also was awarded an excellent long-term care grade, with a score of A. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. This completed truly elite report card. Nursing scores are mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 5.8 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is among the highest totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by both of these statistics. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home in the country in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.