Hawkeye Care Center Dubuque

Hawkeye Care Center Dubuque is located in Dubuque, Iowa. The city has 71,168 people. With an overall grade of A-, this facility is among the better nursing homes we looked at. Dubuque features many nursing homes, but we doubt you will need to look at too many others. This one looks like a first-rate option. If you scroll down, you can see this place's category grades, which are also strong.

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this facility also excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Very few nursing homes performed this well in this area. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor dings are not the end of the world.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving residents even once per day.

This nursing home was awarded an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category with a score of B+. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to return to the community. We found that this facility was better than average in this metric with 50.3 percent of its patients returning home.

The last area we scored is long-term care. This facility received a strong nursing score this year, with a grade of B. While this isn't as strong as a few of its other scores, this remains one of the better scores in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.57447 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. This nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.37 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.