Correctionville Specialty Care

Correctionville Specialty Care is a small non-profit nursing home located in Correctionville, Iowa. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is one of the most impressive ratings we offer. A grade of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top quarter of all facilities in the country. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which is addressed in the next section.

One of the reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its top-shelf profile, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- for the area. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.51852 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.54 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. There are a host of criteria included in this category. Most of these factors relate to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a patient more often.

The last area we graded is short-term care, where this facility received a B. While this turned out to be its least impressive category score, this is nevertheless a favorable grade. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 44.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.