Abcm Rehab Centers of Independence East Campus

Abcm Rehab Centers of Independence East Campus is located in Independence, Iowa. The city has 8,648 people. With an overall grade of B+, this facility should work for most people. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this place. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this very important area. Inspection grades are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it was awarded a favorable long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care turned out to be its second most impressive category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 79.06976 percent of its residents. This is somewhat lower than we anticipated. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.22 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing scores are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a patient at least once a day.

The final area we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care rating in our assessment, with a C. Even though this wasn't quite as good as some of its other grades, this remains a respectable score for this area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 39.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.