Accura Healthcare of Bancroft

Accura Healthcare of Bancroft is a small facility located in Bancroft, Iowa. This facility is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. In fact, it was given the very best score. In fact, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the top 50 facilities in Iowa. Finally, this is a very consistent facility with consistent grades in all of the major categories we assessed. More information about its category grades is available below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem 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.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A+. In calculating our nursing grades, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day. At least one quarter of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. This is a high ratio of skilled nursing. In calculating our nursing grades, we apply additional weight to hours provided by registered or licensed nurses. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its fine resume, this nursing home also was awarded a dominant long-term care score, with a grade of A. 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. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Switching gears to the last category, this nursing home was given a very strong short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this category, giving this facility straight A's. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. When we assessed this place's nursing hours, we found it offered significantly more care from registered nurses than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. It performed decently in this area, with 47 percent of its patients returning home.