Davenport Lutheran Home

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. Its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this facility an B. We looked at the levels of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility Iowa in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients at least once a day.

The third area we assessed was long-term care, where this facility received a grade of C in this area. Long-term care grades are used to grade a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's weakest area was short-term care, which is the last category we looked at. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of D. Short-term care ratings are critical for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its score in this area, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.