Fellowship Village

Fellowship Village is a small non-profit facility located in Inwood, Iowa. This facility is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. This nursing home was given one of the best scores we offer. In fact, this facility has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 100 best facilities in Iowa. This is an impressive achievement in a state with a long list of elite facilities. Headlining this nursing home's exemplary profile is its long-term care rating, which you can find in the next section.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. The last statistic we looked at is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 3.14 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this category, this number can be skewed for some facilities based on some of the medical complexity of residents.

This facility has also received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. The nursing rating weighs a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we rated was short-term care. We gave this facility a decent score in that area, with a grade of B-. While this wasn't as strong as several of its other grades, it is still not a bad grade. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 23.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.