Kennybrook Village

With an address in Grimes, Iowa, Kennybrook Village is the sole facility we were able to find in this city. With an overall grade of A+, this nursing home is among the top nursing homes we assessed. We were so impressed with this facility that we rated it as one of the top 25 nursing homes in Iowa. Scroll down to find this nursing home's category grades, which are equally impressive. You just can't do any better than a straight A profile.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical 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 arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an A+. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With less than 5 percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared as well as any facility Iowa in this category. This is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and a system of turning residents at least once a day.

The next area we assessed was long-term care. This facility also received an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few facilities to be given several A+ category grades. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of providing elite levels of nursing care, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the last category we analyzed, this facility was awarded an impressive grade grade of A in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility completed a straight A profile. In forming these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. 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 last metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This place performed as well as just about any facility in Iowa with 56.7 percent of its patients returning home.