Harmony House Health Care Cent is a facility located in Waterloo, Iowa. This city has a total of 70,157 people. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is one of the highest ratings we offer. A grade in this range requires superb scores across the board. This nursing home proved to be one of the better nursing homes in Waterloo, which boasts a good selection of facilities. As you will find below, this place also performed just fine in our category scores. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.
Harmony House Health Care Cent
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
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Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a strong overall rating, this facility earned an A+ inspection score. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.
Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Nursing grades are mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our next category, this nursing home also received a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at was long-term care. We gave this nursing home one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a grade of B. Although this isn't as high as a few of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless a fine grade. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.15951 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Harmony House Health Care Cent Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 6.13% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 3.72% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term care patients who have experienced falls which resulted in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 2.97% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint can also be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 16.77% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure indicates the percent of long-term care patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 18.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 4.77% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 94.58% of Patients
This is the percent of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 16.85% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate decline of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 20.59% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 1.17 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Harmony House Health Care Cent, 20.59 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Scores for Waterloo, IA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- 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