Iowa Park Healthcare Center

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this nursing home excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes fared better in that category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was given high grades in the category of long-term care as well. In fact, we gave it one of our most dominant grades in that category with a area of A-. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 96.42857 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's third best category is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. In crafting these short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we analyzed was nursing, where this facility received a B-. This actually turned out to be this facility's weakest area. This is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the levels of training of the nurses. This place provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.