Genesis Senior Living Center is an average-sized facility in Des Moines, Iowa. Featuring an overall grade of D, this is a well below average facility. Not surprisingly, this is ranked as one of the bottom five rated facilities in Des Moines based on the data we assessed. With many other facilities in the city, you may simply want to look elsewhere. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive nursing rating. You can scroll down to learn more about nursing and other category scores
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Genesis Senior Living Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Colostomy Care
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
While we didn't give this facility a good overall grade, we did give it a strong grade in the area of nursing, where it received a B+. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given a strong grade in our short-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in that area. Our short-term care grades are presumably most important for people needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
We gave this nursing home just a D for our long-term care score. This is not an impressive grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 42.79661 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.
Facility Inspections
Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received an abysmal grade. We weight this category more heavily than other categories. When a place has this bad of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This typically suggests that a bad performance has been an issue for several years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Genesis Senior Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 7.48% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 2.97% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term care residents who suffered falls which resulted in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 2.19% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. However, this datapoint could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 5.88% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 34.68% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 10.55% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 61.4% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 7.84% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 7.75% of Residents
This is the percentage of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 7.75% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 21.56% of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Genesis Senior Living Center, 47.5% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many argue this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Des Moines, IA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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