Accura Healthcare of Sioux City is a senior living facility in Sioux City, Iowa, which has a total of 85,884 people. This is a good facility. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable score. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this place. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accura Healthcare of Sioux City
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
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Nurse Quality
One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. The nursing rating is based on several datapoints, but the main one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 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.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home earned top notch health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with an B+. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
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Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the road grade in the category of short-term care, where it received a B-. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we assessed is long-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is not a bad grade in this category. Long-term care ratings are critical for residents seeking personal care. Once we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 86.274506 percent of its residents for pneumonia. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Accura Healthcare of Sioux City Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 3.9% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 1.31% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients which have sustained falls which caused severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 4.67% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by poor nursing care. However, this datapoint can also be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 25.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used to treat a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 24.18% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term stay patients who were given antianxiety medication. These medications are typically prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 2.11% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 91.71% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 16.56% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of decline of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 21.51% of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 21.51% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 26.35% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Accura Healthcare of Sioux City, 73.07% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Sioux City, IA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Sioux City, Iowa has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- St Lukes Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2 miles away2720 Stone Park Boulevard Sioux City Iowa 51104Voluntary non-profit - Private(712) 279-3500
- Mercy Medical Center-Sioux CityAcute Care Hospitals 3.1 miles away801 5th St Sioux City Iowa 51101Voluntary non-profit - Private(712) 279-2010
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc Midwest Dialysis0.29 miles away4000 Indian Hills Dr Sioux City Iowa 51108CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (712) 239-4333
- Siouxland Dialysis4.9 miles away2530 Glenn Ave. Sioux City Iowa 51106Dialysis Stations: 24 (712) 266-1000
- Sioux City Dialysis6.31 miles away5865 Sunnybrook Dr Sioux City Iowa 51106Dialysis Stations: 12 (712) 274-8068
- Fresenius Medical Care Dakota Dunes, LLC6.6 miles away357 W Tower Rd North Sioux City South Dakota 57049Dialysis Stations: 5 (605) 232-1901