Iowa Jewish Senior Life Center

We also wanted to note that this nursing home excelled in our nursing grade. We gave them an A+ in this category. In calculating our nursing ratings, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 facility Iowa in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving a patient more often.

This facility also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the few places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This grade is based on the facility's government inspections. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility also was strong in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Few facilities fared better in this category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is often a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In the final category we scored, this nursing home was awarded a very strong grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home completed a very strong profile. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 64.233574 percent of its patients. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.