Harmony House Health Care Center is a facility located in Waterloo, Iowa. This city has a total of 70,157 people. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A grade in this range requires strong scores in most areas. In fact, we thought highly enough of this nursing home to rate it ahead of most of the nursing homes in Waterloo, which has a good selection of facilities. The best aspect of this facility's impressive report card is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section
Harmony House Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Lymphedema Care
- Aquatic Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared this well in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. When computing our nursing grades, we look at both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning residents more frequently.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B in this category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.815285 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed proved to be this facility's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it a respectable grade of B- for our short-term care category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Harmony House Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 6.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 3.69% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 3.09% of Patients had UTIs
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients who have sustained a UTI. UTI's may be an indication of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 16.77% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used for treating several medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 18.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 4.48% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 94.58% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 16.82% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 19.24% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents that retained mobility levels. Many would argue that the ability to move around is important for patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Harmony House Health Care Center, 19.24 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Scores for Waterloo, IA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Waterloo, Iowa has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Mercyone Waterloo Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.85 miles away3421 West Ninth Street Waterloo Iowa 50702Voluntary non-profit - Church(319) 272-8000
- Mercyone Cedar Falls Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.61 miles away515 College Street Cedar Falls Iowa 50613Voluntary non-profit - Church(319) 268-3000
- Allen HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.97 miles away1825 Logan Avenue Waterloo Iowa 50703Voluntary non-profit - Private(319) 235-3941
- Grundy County Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.61 miles away201 East J Avenue Grundy Center Iowa 50638Voluntary non-profit - Other(319) 824-5421
- Waverly Health CenterCritical Access Hospitals 19.69 miles away312 9th Street Sw Waverly Iowa 50677Government - Local(319) 352-4120
Nearby Dialysis
- Cedar Valley Dialysis Center2.39 miles away1661 W. Ridgeway Waterloo Iowa 50701CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (319) 226-6425
- Black Hawk Dialysis3.87 miles away3421 W 9th St Waterloo Iowa 50702Dialysis Stations: 18 (319) 272-8700
- Cedar Valley Waverly Dialysis19.74 miles away220 10th Street Sw Waverly Iowa 50677Dialysis Stations: 16 (319) 226-6425