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Corydon Specialty Care

Nursing Home
Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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Corydon Specialty Care's website

745 East South Street,
Corydon IA 50060

(641) 872-1590

92.95% estimated occupancy ¹

Corydon Specialty Care is the sole facility located in Corydon, Iowa. With an overall grade of C, this appears to be a respectable facility. Based on our assessment, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. The best part of this facility's report card is is its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

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

Specialized Services

Medication Management
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pain Management
Bariatric Care

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Facility Inspections

One of the reasons this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned a favorable inspection grade. In this category, we gave this facility a B+. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Nurse Quality

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, while this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory.

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Long-term Care Quality

This facility's second lowest score is long-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a relatively poor grade. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.13115 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Short-term Care Quality

The final area we assessed was short-term care, which was a weak spot for this nursing home. We gave this facility a grade of just D in the area of short-term care. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Corydon Specialty Care Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Corydon Specialty Care, 5.96% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Corydon Specialty Care, 7.38% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of long-term care residents that experienced a fall which caused major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Corydon Specialty Care, 2.53% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to poor nursing care. However, this datapoint could be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Corydon Specialty Care, 19.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Corydon Specialty Care, 21.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are given to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Corydon Specialty Care, 5.68% of Patients

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

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Corydon Specialty Care, 95.05% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Corydon Specialty Care, 22.63% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and bathing.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Corydon Specialty Care, 23.39% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

In Corydon Specialty Care, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Corydon Specialty Care, 23.39% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Corydon Specialty Care, 27.16% of Patients

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Corydon Specialty Care, 76.91% of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

Wayne County HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.21 miles away417 South East Street Corydon Iowa 50060Government - Local(641) 872-2260
Lucas County Health CenterCritical Access Hospitals 18.95 miles away1200 North 7th Street Chariton Iowa 50049Voluntary non-profit - Other(641) 774-3000