Correctionville Specialty Care

Nursing Home
Assisted Living

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Correctionville Specialty Care's website

1116 East Highway 20,
Correctionville IA 51016

(712) 372-4466

76.66% estimated occupancy ¹

With an address in Correctionville, Iowa, Correctionville Specialty Care is the sole nursing home located there. This facility is a subpar nursing home. A grade of this caliber suggests we found a few red flags. This place has very little going for it. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection grade. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category scores

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Although we did not rate this facility highly overall, we want to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Even with this deficiency, this place still had a relatively favorable report.

Nurse Quality

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

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Short-term Care Quality

We also awarded this facility a solid grade in the category of short-term care, with a grade of C. In our short-term care score, we endeavor to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

Long-term Care Quality

The final area we rated was long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a rock bottom score. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 93.396225 percent of its residents. This is somewhat lower than we expected but still a decent percentage. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Correctionville Specialty Care Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 6.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 3.69% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents which experienced falls which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 3.09% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 16.77% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure gauges the percent of long-term residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically required. However, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 18.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 4.48% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 94.58% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 16.82% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 19.24% Percentage of Residents

This tells you the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 19.24 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Correctionville Specialty Care, 79.45% Percentage of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts believe that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.