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Benedictine Living Community - Crookston

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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516 Walsh Street,
Crookston MN 56716

(218) 281-3424

86.92% estimated occupancy ¹

Benedictine Living Community - Crookston is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Crookston, Minnesota. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is very good score. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top quarter of all nursing homes in the country. The best part of this facility's impressive profile was its short-term care score. We discuss short-term care in the next section

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Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Palliative Care
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Hemodialysis
Peritoneal Dialysis
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Bariatric Care
Optometry
Colostomy Care
Lymphedema Care

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Awards

Best Nursing Home in Crookston, Minnesota Awards 2020

Best Nursing Home in Crookston, Minnesota Awards 2021

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Short-term Care Quality

We also found that this facility excelled at short-term care. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

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Facility Inspections

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Long-term Care Quality

The final category we assessed was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a decent grade in that category, with a B-. Although this wasn't as strong as a few of its other scores, it is still not a bad grade. Our long-term care ratings are more important for people needing more conventional services related to activities of daily living. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 95.81993 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Benedictine Living Community - Crookston Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Benedictine Living Community - Crookston, 7.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Benedictine Living Community - Crookston, 0.32% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of patients who have had a fall which resulted in major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Benedictine Living Community - Crookston, 2% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients which had a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indication of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Benedictine Living Community - Crookston, 12.42% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs may be used for treating several conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Benedictine Living Community - Crookston, 18.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Benedictine Living Community - Crookston, 12.17% of Patients

This is the percent of residents exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Benedictine Living Community - Crookston, 96.19% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Benedictine Living Community - Crookston, 17.65% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Benedictine Living Community - Crookston, 13.33% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Some experts believe that mobility is vital to residents' well-being.