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Elm Heights Care Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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1203 South Elm Street,
Shenandoah IA 51601

(712) 246-4627

88.88% estimated occupancy 1

Elm Heights Care Center is located in Shenandoah, Iowa, a city with a population of 6,025 people. Featuring an overall rating of A, this nursing home is one of the best facilities we found. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top fifth of all nursing homes nationally. If you look further down this page, you can see this place's category grades, which are also impressive.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Awards

Best Nursing Home in Shenandoah, Iowa badge

Best Nursing Home in Shenandoah, Iowa Awards 2020

Best Nursing Home in Shenandoah, Iowa badge

Best Nursing Home in Shenandoah, Iowa Awards 2021

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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing grade consists of many datapoints, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning patients more often.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

Switching gears to our fourth area, this facility also performed well in the short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a B+ for this category. This rounded out a very strong report card. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Elm Heights Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Elm Heights Care Center, 3.41% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure gauges the percentage of long-term care residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: F

In Elm Heights Care Center, 9.4% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients that experienced a fall which resulted in major injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Elm Heights Care Center, 3.47% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poor hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Elm Heights Care Center, 11.35% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Elm Heights Care Center, 22.31% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-minus

In Elm Heights Care Center, 4.96% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients showing depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression could imply worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Elm Heights Care Center, 100% of Patients

This is the percent of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In Elm Heights Care Center, 13.85% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B

In Elm Heights Care Center, 15.25% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: F

In Elm Heights Care Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B

In Elm Heights Care Center, 15.25% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In Elm Heights Care Center, 25.06% of Patients

This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Shenandoah Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 0.26 miles away300 Pershing Avenue Shenandoah Iowa 51601Voluntary non-profit - Private(712) 246-1230
  • George C Grape Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 17.2 miles away2959 Us Highway 275 Hamburg Iowa 51640Proprietary(712) 382-1515
  • Clarinda Regional Health CenterCritical Access Hospitals 17.54 miles away220 Essie Davison Drive Clarinda Iowa 51632Voluntary non-profit - Other(712) 542-2176

Nearby Dialysis

  • Shenandoah Dialysis0.29 miles away300 Pershing Avenue Shenandoah Iowa 51601Dialysis Stations: 12 (712) 246-5220