Accura Healthcare of Knoxville

Accura Healthcare of Knoxville is a small nursing home located in Knoxville, Iowa. This nursing home received an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a lower end rating. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Knoxville. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection score. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's next most favorable category is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This place fared respectably with 48.5 percent of its residents returning home.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. We assessed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This place offered just 2.6 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. This facility also had terrible marks in several of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than twice the national average in this statistic.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home really did not fare very well in this category either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. We were far less impressed with its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.5 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is more than double the national average. This is certainly a concerning figure.