The Estates at Lynnhurst

The Estates at Lynnhurst is in Saint Paul, Minnesota. This city is among the most populated cities in the country with has 753,116 people. This nursing home proved to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. Even in a city featuring 33 other nursing homes, this facility looks like a quality choice. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to performing well in its overall score, this facility received even higher grades in nursing. In fact, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A+. We assessed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 3.2 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 prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also performed well in inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our best scores in that category with an A-. Few nursing homes with an overall grade in this range performed as well in multiple categories. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of B-. Long-term care grades are often used to gauge a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated just 90.86957 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. While it had 2.1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most nursing homes since it had some more complicated patients.

Switching gears to the final area, this facility was given a grade of C in short-term care, which is generally a decent grade. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is generally a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 15.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure is below the national average.