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Bethany Home

  • Nursing Home
  • Independent Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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1005 Lincoln Avenue,
Dubuque IA 52001

(563) 556-5233

98.48% estimated occupancy 1

Bethany Home is a nursing home located in Dubuque, Iowa. This city has 71,168 people. This nursing home is a grade A facility, which is a dominant grade. Dubuque has a double digit count of other nursing homes, however, it is unlikely you will need to check out too many others. This one is a high quality option. This place also received very consistent grades in all of our categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Church related
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2022)
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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing score is largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

This nursing home has had near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this area. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

In the final area, this facility also was given a very strong short-term care grade, with a grade of B+. This topped off a very impressive report card. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Bethany Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Bethany Home, 3.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who have pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are an barometer of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In Bethany Home, 4.88% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term patients that suffered a fall which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: F

In Bethany Home, 6.61% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with insufficient hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Bethany Home, 16.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic gauges the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Bethany Home, 16.83% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Bethany Home, 2.58% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression. Higher rates of depression could indicate worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Bethany Home, 95.7% of Patients

This is the percent of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Bethany Home, 17.79% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate decline of a resident's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Bethany Home, 12.71% of Residents

This tells you the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In Bethany Home, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Bethany Home, 12.71% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Scores for Dubuque, IA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A

Looking for more options? Dubuque, Iowa has 9 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Mercyone Dubuque Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.91 miles away250 Mercy Drive Dubuque Iowa 52001Voluntary non-profit - Church(563) 589-8000
  • Finley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.1 miles away350 North Grandview Avenue Dubuque Iowa 52001Voluntary non-profit - Private(563) 582-1881
  • Midwest Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 11.57 miles away1 Medical Center Drive Galena Illinois 61036Voluntary non-profit - Private(815) 777-1340
  • Southwest Health CenterCritical Access Hospitals 17.41 miles away1400 East Side Rd Platteville Wisconsin 53818Voluntary non-profit - Private(608) 348-2331

Nearby Dialysis

  • Tri- State Dialysis - Dubuque1.94 miles away1500 Delhi St #2100 Dubuque Iowa 52001CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (563) 589-4033
  • Tri State Dialysis - Platteville18.03 miles away1250 E Business Highway 151, Suite B Platteville Wisconsin 53818Dialysis Stations: 12 (608) 348-5064

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=165584