Grandview Heights

Grandview Heights is a nursing home located in Marshalltown, Iowa, a city with a total of 31,591 people. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B-, which is a decent grade. You can definitely do worse than this place. The best part of this place's profile is its exemplary inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

We want to point out that this nursing home really outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in that area with an A. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

One of this facility's more respectable category scores was in the area of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most respectable category. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 99.03846 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a much better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a resident at least once a day.

The final area we scored is short-term care, proved to be this facility's worst area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this area. This really was one of the couple of dings in a very solid profile. With our short-term care category, we seek to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we discovered that this place offered less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We were surprised to find that it performed better in this area, with 50.6 percent of its patients returning home. This was just about this nursing home's sole highlight in this category.