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Harmony House Health Care Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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2950 West Shaulis Road,
Waterloo IA 50701

(319) 234-4495

54.28% estimated occupancy 1

Harmony House Health Care Center is a facility located in Waterloo, Iowa. This city has a total of 70,157 people. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is one of the highest ratings we offer. A grade in this range requires superb scores across the board. This nursing home proved to be one of the better nursing homes in Waterloo, which boasts a good selection of facilities. As you will find below, this place also performed just fine in our category scores. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • No Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Laboratory
  • Optometry
  • Audiology
  • Colostomy Care
  • Lymphedema Care
  • Aquatic Therapy

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

In addition to receiving a strong overall rating, this facility earned an A+ inspection score. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Nursing grades are mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

Moving on our next category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care score. This is a first-rate rating. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 96.68874 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

The next area we analyzed was short-term care, where this facility was given a B. Even though this ended up being its poorest category grade, this is nevertheless an impressive grade. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Harmony House Health Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-plus

In Harmony House Health Care Center, 1.02% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A+

In Harmony House Health Care Center, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often caused by lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Harmony House Health Care Center, 2.65% of Patients had UTIs

This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents who had a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indicator of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric can be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Harmony House Health Care Center, 42.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used for treating several conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: D

In Harmony House Health Care Center, 30.99% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Harmony House Health Care Center, 7.41% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Harmony House Health Care Center, 98.34% of Patients

This is the percent of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Harmony House Health Care Center, 9.4% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate decline of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: F

In Harmony House Health Care Center, 6.06% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that were able to retain mobility.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Harmony House Health Care Center, 6.06% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Scores for Waterloo, IA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

Looking for more options? Waterloo, Iowa has 5 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Mercyone Waterloo Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.85 miles away3421 West Ninth Street Waterloo Iowa 50702Voluntary non-profit - Church(319) 272-8000
  • Mercyone Cedar Falls Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.61 miles away515 College Street Cedar Falls Iowa 50613Voluntary non-profit - Church(319) 268-3000
  • Allen HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.97 miles away1825 Logan Avenue Waterloo Iowa 50703Voluntary non-profit - Private(319) 235-3941
  • Grundy County Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.61 miles away201 East J Avenue Grundy Center Iowa 50638Voluntary non-profit - Other(319) 824-5421
  • Waverly Health CenterCritical Access Hospitals 19.69 miles away312 9th Street Sw Waverly Iowa 50677Government - Local(319) 352-4120

Nearby Dialysis

  • Cedar Valley Dialysis Center2.39 miles away1661 W. Ridgeway Waterloo Iowa 50701CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (319) 226-6425
  • Black Hawk Dialysis3.87 miles away3421 W 9th St Waterloo Iowa 50702Dialysis Stations: 18 (319) 272-8700
  • Cedar Valley Waverly Dialysis19.74 miles away220 10th Street Sw Waverly Iowa 50677Dialysis Stations: 16 (319) 226-6425