Fleur Heights Center for Wellness and Rehab
4911 Sw 19th Street, Des Moines IA 50315 · (515) 285-2559 · 62.58% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Fleur Heights Center for Wellness and Rehab is an average-sized nursing home located in Des Moines, Iowa. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A grade of this caliber requires some respectable marks. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. We were also pleased to discover that this place was consistent in each of the major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
It should be noted that this nursing home's inspection rating outpaced its overall score. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for its inspections grade, which is one of our better scores. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this nursing home a B in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our better scores. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. It performed better than most nursing homes in the country with 52.5 percent of its patients able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. The nursing rating analyzes quite a few subcategories, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides an impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is among the higher totals in Iowa. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility was above average in most of these areas, with good scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we scored is long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is not a bad grade in this area. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. While we determined this nursing home had an above average volume of nursing care provided by nurses and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be a bit slightly lower than we anticipated. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 63.736263 percent of its patients. This is one statistic we'd like to see this facility bring up. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.71 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fleur Heights Center for Wellness and Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percent of long-term residents which suffered a fall leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term residents which are given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who are showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better