Mercy Health Services- Iowa Corp is one of four facilities in Mason City, Iowa. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is an elite grade. As a matter of fact, this turned out to be the best facility in the city. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card is its short-term care rating. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section
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Mercy Health Services- Iowa Corp
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Church related
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
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Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a strong facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received an elite grade of A+. Few facilities fared better in this area. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor dings aren't something to panic about.
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Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a resident more often.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we graded was long-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of C. While this wound up being its worst category grade, this is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's personal care rather than the skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mercy Health Services- Iowa Corp Quality Metrics
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Mercy Health Services- Iowa Corp, 12.73 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Mercy Health Services- Iowa Corp, 77.73% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Mason City, IA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Mason City, Iowa has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Mercy Medical Center-North IowaAcute Care Hospitals 2.3 miles away1000 Fourth Street Sw Mason City Iowa 50401Voluntary non-profit - Private(641) 428-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Mason City0.25 miles away910 N Eisenhower Ave Mason City Iowa 50401Dialysis Stations: 21 (641) 423-6015