ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Dubuque)

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This nursing home was given high grades in the area of short-term care as well. Indeed, it received one of our strongest grades in that area with a area of A. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. We assessed the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our rating in this area. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving patients at least once a day.

The final area we assessed is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. You should not simply disregard a facility because of one poor category though. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 97.76786 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.