Iowa Jewish Senior Life Center
900 Polk Boulevard, Des Moines IA 50312 · (515) 255-5433 · 76.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Iowa Jewish Senior Life Center is in Des Moines, Iowa. This city has a population of 212,318 people. This nursing home is an A+ facility, which is the absolute highest score. Indeed, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as one of the top five nursing homes in Des Moines. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's exemplary profile is its nursing score. We discuss nursing in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 72 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses commit to patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 5.6 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. This is among the better totals of nursing hours we were able to find. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home in the country when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these datapoints as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided.
Facility Inspections
The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
We also want to point out the fact that this nursing home was awarded an impressive score of A in our long-term care area. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered in addition to this facility's quality nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for seniors. This combination proved to be successful as this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Short-term Care Quality
In our last category, this facility also was given an impressive short-term care grade, with a grade of A. This finished off a straight A profile. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is often a reliable measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. This place provided more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 53.2 percent of its residents able to return home. This is a better rate than most nursing homes.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Iowa Jewish Senior Life Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better