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Traverse Care Center

  • Nursing Home
  • Independent Living

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B-minus
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303 Seventh Street South,
Wheaton MN 56296

(320) 563-8124

72.95% estimated occupancy 1

Traverse Care Center is located in Wheaton, Minnesota, a city with a total of 2,029 people. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is likely a decent nursing home. In our view, this place looks like a solid choice for most people. The best part of this place's profile was is its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Lymphedema Care
  • Aquatic Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

This facility also received a positive score in our short-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in that category. Our short-term care grades are likely most critical for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a resident even once per day.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The next area we rated was long-term care, which was this facility's least impressive area. We gave it an F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated just 90.7563 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Traverse Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-minus

In Traverse Care Center, 5.32% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: F

In Traverse Care Center, 9.24% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care. More supervision reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Traverse Care Center, 0.85% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients who sustained a UTI. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between facilities due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Traverse Care Center, 15.65% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Traverse Care Center, 16.38% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Traverse Care Center, 3.77% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Traverse Care Center, 91.59% of Patients

This is the percent of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In Traverse Care Center, 21.55% of Patients

This is the percent of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Traverse Care Center, 25.35% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who maintained mobility.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Traverse Care Center, 25.35% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Sanford Medical Center WheatonCritical Access Hospitals 0.6 miles away401 12th Street North Wheaton Minnesota 56296Voluntary non-profit - Private(320) 563-8226
  • Essentia Health Holy Trinity HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 16.82 miles away115 Second Street West, Box 157 Graceville Minnesota 56240Voluntary non-profit - Private(320) 748-8200