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Iowa Veterans Home

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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1301 Summit,
Marshalltown IA 50158

(641) 752-1501

47.69% estimated occupancy 1

Iowa Veterans Home is one of four available facilities located in Marshalltown, Iowa. This turns out to be an A rated facility, which is one of the top scores we offer. Based on our analysis, this facility is just about as as good as it gets. This place also received consistently good grades in all of the major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.

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Quick Details

  • No Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Government - State
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Optometry

Awards

Best Nursing Home in Marshalltown, Iowa badge

Best Nursing Home in Marshalltown, Iowa Awards 2019

Best Nursing Home in Marshalltown, Iowa badge

Best Nursing Home in Marshalltown, Iowa Awards 2020

Best Nursing Home in Marshalltown, Iowa badge

Best Nursing Home in Marshalltown, Iowa Awards 2021

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A+

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing score is mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation 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 patient more often.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A

The third area we analyzed is long-term care. Contributing to its impressive profile, this facility also excelled in that category. In fact, we gave it a of A in that category. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.1635 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

In the last category we assessed, this facility was given a very strong grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the nursing home topped off a very impressive profile. Our short-term care scores are arguably more meaningful for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who 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

Iowa Veterans Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Iowa Veterans Home, 3.49% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Iowa Veterans Home, 3.95% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term residents who had a fall leading to severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In Iowa Veterans Home, 1.75% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of long-term patients which have had a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to varying reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Iowa Veterans Home, 21.96% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term patients that are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Iowa Veterans Home, 22.43% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients who are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-minus

In Iowa Veterans Home, 5.07% of Patients

This is the percent of residents exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A-minus

In Iowa Veterans Home, 99.16% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Iowa Veterans Home, 17.33% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: C

In Iowa Veterans Home, 10.53% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who maintained mobility. Some would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Iowa Veterans Home, 0.43 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Iowa Veterans Home, 10.53% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Scores for Marshalltown, IA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B
  • 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

Looking for more options? Marshalltown, Iowa has 3 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Unitypoint Health-MarshalltownAcute Care Hospitals 1.51 miles away3 S 4th Ave Marshalltown Iowa 50158Voluntary non-profit - Private(641) 754-5151

Nearby Dialysis

  • Marshalltown Mary Greeley Dialysis3.18 miles away3120 2nd St. Marshalltown Iowa 50158Dialysis Stations: 24 (641) 752-1819