Fonda Specialty Care

Fonda Specialty Care is the sole option we found in Fonda, Iowa. It looks like this is a fine nursing home. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable grade. You could definitely do much worse than this place. Fortunately, this facility didn't have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

One of the reasons this place is a strong facility is that it received an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In this area, we gave it an A. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing grade is mostly based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

This nursing home also was given a favorable long-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this area. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.77465 percent of its residents, which is higher than most nursing homes. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1.4 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care, where this facility received a grade of C. Even though this ended up being its weakest category score, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 22.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure is below the national average.