Grandview Healthcare Center
800 Fifth Street Se, Oelwein IA 50662 · (319) 283-1908 · 61.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Grandview Healthcare Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Oelwein, Iowa. We gave this facility an overall grade of B-. A score in this range requires some respectable marks. Based on our assessment, there are definitely much worse nursing homes out there. The best part of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 93 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our better scores. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 91.441444 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.49 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second least favorable category was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that area. This is a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this facility was below average in one of the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered fewer physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 36.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. This statistic was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Nurse Quality
The next category we scored was nursing, proved to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that area. This really was one of just a couple of weak points in an otherwise impressive report card. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. Quantity of nursing care does not appear to be the problem here. Based on the data, it looks like this facility provides an above average 4.8 hours per patient per day. This is more nursing care than most places offer. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this place didn't perform as well in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was above the national average in both of these metrics. This is not a good sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Grandview Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term residents which sustained falls leading to severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better