Grandview Health Care Center

With an address in Dayton, Iowa, Grandview Health Care Center is the lone option we identified in this area. We gave this facility an overall grade of B+. A score in this range requires strong scores in most areas. Based on our analysis, you can do much worse than this place. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of our major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility received high grades in the area of nursing as well. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This nursing home was given a strong short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a useful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 41 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we looked at was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a C. This is this nursing home's worst area. This is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 91.39785 percent of its patients. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.71 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.