The Green Prairie Rehabilitation Center

The Green Prairie Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Plainview, Minnesota, a city with a total of 4,389 people. With an A- overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. Based on our assessment, this place ought to be a wonderful choice for most people. This facility also received very consistent grades in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about its category grades is available below.

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Inspection grades are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing score is largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Roughly one-fourth of these hours were provided by registered nurses, which are among the most skilled levels of nurses. This is an impressive percentage of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours performed by skilled nurses more in calculating our nursing ratings. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

We also want to emphasize the fact that this nursing home was given an impressive grade of A- in our short-term care area. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. It fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 52.9 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

The next area we rated is long-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a strong grade of B. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.22481 percent of its residents, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep 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 figure.