Deerfield Retirement Community
13731 Hickman Road, Urbandale IA 50323 · (515) 267-0438 · 85% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Deerfield Retirement Community is a small non-profit nursing home located in Urbandale, Iowa. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded nursing homes we looked at. This facility received one of the most impressive ratings we offer. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top quarter of all facilities in the country. Headlining this nursing home's remarkable profile is its nursing rating, which we will address in the next section.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Our nursing rating consists of many factors, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility provided 5.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the higher figures we found. Furthermore, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home was also above average in several of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Facility Inspections
Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next category, this facility was awarded a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is frequently a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. This facility provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we looked at. This is often a great sign. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Iowa in this area with 57.8 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we scored is long-term care. We awarded this facility a decent grade in that category, with a grade of B-. Even though this is not as high as a few of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless not the end of the world. Our long-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of nursing care. This means a vast range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. Although we determined this facility has an impressive amount of nursing hours provided by aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be a bit below average. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 70.833336 percent of its patients. This is one statistic we'd like to see this facility improve. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was worse than we hoped. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.28 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of patients
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Deerfield Retirement Community Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents who developed pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better