Warroad Care Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.441345 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our short-term care score. Short-term care scores are important for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In the last area we looked at, we found that this nursing home earned a solid government inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from government inspectors. It received a decent score in our inspection category with a grade of B-. This nursing home really didn't have any major weaknesses. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.