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Lutheran Retirement Home

  • Nursing Home
  • Independent Living
  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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701 Ninth Street North,
Northwood IA 50459

(641) 324-1712

80.86% estimated occupancy 1

Lutheran Retirement Home is a small non-profit nursing home in Northwood, Iowa. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is one of the most impressive ratings that we offer. A score in this range requires superb scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top 25 percent of all facilities in the nation. Keep reading to find this nursing home's category ratings, which are also quite good. It is hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Church related
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Pain Management

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in Iowa Awards 2020

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Top Nursing Home in Iowa Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

To pair with a strong overall grade, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspection category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

This facility is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it received a score of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. Short-term care grades are typically employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our more favorable scores in our long-term care category as well, with a B+. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 97.74436 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

In the last category, this facility also was awarded a first-rate nursing rating, with a B+. This wrapped up a very strong report card. When computing a facility's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses are seeing residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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Lutheran Retirement Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 12.31% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 6.77% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 6.06% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections could be associated with poorer hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 13.18% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Unfortunately, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 19.51% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric measures the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 1.59% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting depressive symptoms. Higher rates of depression could be a sign worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 98.87% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 17.95% of Patients

This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 13.48% of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term care patients who maintained mobility.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 13.48% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Lutheran Retirement Home, 5.48% of Patients

This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Mayo Clinic Health System - Albert Lea and AustinAcute Care Hospitals 15.78 miles away404 West Fountain Street Albert Lea Minnesota 56007Voluntary non-profit - Private(507) 377-6452

Nearby Dialysis

  • Mayo Dialysis - Albert Lea14.19 miles away1705 Se Broadway Attn: Dialysis Albert Lea Minnesota 56007CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (507) 377-5920