The Gardens at Cannon Falls

While this facility's overall score was not great, it received a good grade in the category of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. This one of its few redeeming features. Short-term care ratings are vital for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility also received a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its second best grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Our nursing score is largely associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Among this place's alarming category grades was a lowly F for its inspection score. More often than not, this indicates we found red flags on the facility's government inspection reports. With places that received this poor of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed 8 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This typically signifies that a nursing home's poor track record spanned multiple years.

The next category we scored was long-term care, where this facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade in this area also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is definitely a major concern. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 92.17391 percent of its patients, which is slightly less than we expected. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.