Altoona Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
200 Seventh Avenue Sw, Altoona IA 50009 · (515) 967-4267 · 93.11% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Altoona Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home in Altoona, Iowa. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a lower end facility. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Altoona. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 106 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't give this nursing home a good overall score, we did give it a strong grade in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of B. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second best category turned out to be short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a B-. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a meaningful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 44.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. When computing our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing ratings also include quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the final category, this facility really did not fare well here either. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.71347 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.58 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Altoona Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term patients which had falls leading to serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents who have had urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better