Jp Senior Healthcare is a small nursing home located in Clarinda, Iowa. With an overall grade of A-, this nursing home is one of the higher-graded nursing homes we assessed. This is just about as good of a facility as you'll find. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its long-term care score, which you can find in the next section.
Jp Senior Healthcare
Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn
225 West Laperla Drive,
Clarinda IA 51632
65.77% estimated occupancy 1
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Long-term Care Quality
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 89.6 percent of its patients. This is a bit less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. The last statistic we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing grade considers several datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in that category, with an A-. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we scored is short-term care. In this category, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. This actually proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. This place performed better than most nursing homes in this metric with 53.1 percent of its residents returning home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Jp Senior Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 6.08% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 3.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term care patients that have sustained falls which resulted in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 2.94% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indication of poor nursing care. However, this statistic could also be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 16.71% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used to treat several medical conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 18.64% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 4.84% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 94.37% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 16.8% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 20.56% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 1.17 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Jp Senior Healthcare, 20.56 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Nearby Hospitals
- Clarinda Regional Health CenterCritical Access Hospitals 0.12 miles away220 Essie Davison Drive Clarinda Iowa 51632Voluntary non-profit - Other(712) 542-2176
- Shenandoah Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 17.35 miles away300 Pershing Avenue Shenandoah Iowa 51601Voluntary non-profit - Private(712) 246-1230
Nearby Dialysis
- Shenandoah Dialysis17.32 miles away300 Pershing Avenue Shenandoah Iowa 51601Dialysis Stations: 12 (712) 246-5220