Fonda Specialty Care is a small non-profit nursing home located in Fonda, Iowa. This nursing home proved to be a respectable facility, with an overall grade of C. This place has some things working in its favor. One of the highlights of this facility's profile is its strong inspection reports, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Fonda Specialty Care
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Facility Inspections
The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category, with an A-. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Our inspection grades are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Nursing grades are mostly tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility's next best area turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The final item we considered in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we looked at was long-term care. It received a lowly F for this area, which is an abysmal grade. This is certainly a significant concern. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. One of the data points we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 93.827156 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fonda Specialty Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Fonda Specialty Care, 4.2% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Fonda Specialty Care, 2.47% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . Major falls are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Fonda Specialty Care, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely caused by a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Fonda Specialty Care, 45.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Fonda Specialty Care, 42.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Fonda Specialty Care, 13.42% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term patients exhibiting depressive symptoms. Some believe that this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Fonda Specialty Care, 90.52% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Fonda Specialty Care, 9.02% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate decline of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Fonda Specialty Care, 9.92% of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Fonda Specialty Care, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Fonda Specialty Care, 9.92% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Fonda Specialty Care, 79.61% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Loring HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 13.48 miles away211 Highland Avenue PO Box 217 Sac City Iowa 50583Voluntary non-profit - Private(712) 662-7105
- Pocahontas Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 13.55 miles away606 N W 7th Street Pocahontas Iowa 50574Government - Local(712) 335-3501
- Buena Vista Regional Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 19.72 miles away1525 West 5th Street Storm Lake Iowa 50588Government - Local(712) 732-4030
Nearby Dialysis
- Renal Center of Storm Lake, LLC18.83 miles away1426 N Lake Ave Storm Lake Iowa 50588Dialysis Stations: 16 (712) 732-6900