Humboldt County Memorial Hospi

Humboldt County Memorial Hospi is a small hospital-based facility located in Humboldt, Iowa. This turns out to be an A+ rated facility. Being awarded an A+ in our grading system requires superb marks across the board. This is the number one rated facility in the city. Headlining this facility's stellar profile is its inspection reports, which you can find in the next section.

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. The nursing rating weighs many datapoints, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This place boasts an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which more than an hour of these hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. Lastly, this place was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

An additional strength for this facility is long-term care, where it received an A+ score. This is flat out as good as it gets in this area. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.02913 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.26 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

Switching gears to the final category, this facility also excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this area. This completed a straight A profile. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.