Dunlap Specialty Care

Nursing Home
Assisted Living

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Dunlap Specialty Care's website

1403 Harrison Road,
Dunlap IA 51529

(712) 643-2121

69.47% estimated occupancy ¹

Dunlap Specialty Care is a small non-profit nursing home located in Dunlap, Iowa. With a abysmal overall grade of F, this facility isn't high on our list. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Dunlap. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
No Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
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

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Facility Inspections

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility had 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Nurse Quality

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a facility'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. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

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Short-term Care Quality

Additionally, we gave this nursing home an F in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are presumably most important for folks needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its grade in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Long-term Care Quality

Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home did not perform well in this category either. With a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 81.95489 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

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Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Dunlap Specialty Care Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 6.13% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 3.72% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of residents that sustained a fall which caused severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 2.97% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

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

This figure measures the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 18.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 4.77% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients showing depressive symptoms. High levels of depression may imply worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 94.58% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 16.85% Percentage of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 20.59% Percentage of Residents

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 1.17 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

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

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 20.59 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 11.44 Percentage of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Dunlap Specialty Care, 79.44% Percentage of Resident

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

Nearby Hospitals

Crawford County Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 16.3 miles away100 Medical Parkway Denison Iowa 51442Voluntary non-profit - Other(712) 265-2500
Myrtue Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 19.46 miles away1213 Garfield Avenue Harlan Iowa 51537Voluntary non-profit - Other(712) 755-5161