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Monroe Care Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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120 North Thirteenth Street,
Albia IA 52531

(641) 932-2125

55% estimated occupancy 1

Monroe Care Center is one of just two available facilities located in Albia, Iowa. We awarded this facility an overall grade of D. A grade in this range typically suggests a few concerning datapoints. Based on our ratings, this nursing home likely isn't a great fit for most prospective residents. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Individual
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Optometry
  • Audiology

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall grade, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A-. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

This facility's second most favorable category ended up being long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 98.47328 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

Additionally, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this facility provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

Switching gears to our next category, this nursing home did not fare well here either. With a poor grade of F in nursing, this is about as terrible as it gets. Our nursing grade includes a handful of factors, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility averaged a meager 0 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility was above average in two of the major metrics we focus on, with good marks for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These data points are usually reliable measures of the quality of nursing care available.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Monroe Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Monroe Care Center, 3.03% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Monroe Care Center, 3.05% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric tells you the percent of long-term stay patients which suffered falls which caused serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: F

In Monroe Care Center, 11.82% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often the result of facilities with worst hygiene practices. Closer supervision can limit the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Monroe Care Center, 14.5% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for treating several conditions, such as dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: F

In Monroe Care Center, 36.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Monroe Care Center, 0% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who are showing signs of depression. Many would argue this is a measure of resident quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A-minus

In Monroe Care Center, 99.24% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Monroe Care Center, 18.75% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Monroe Care Center, 19.72% of Residents

This indicates the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: F

In Monroe Care Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Monroe Care Center, 19.72% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Monroe County HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.82 miles away6580 165th Street Albia Iowa 52531Voluntary non-profit - Other(641) 932-2134

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fmc - Ottumwa18.5 miles away1110 Quincy Ave. # 44 Ottumwa Iowa 52501Dialysis Stations: 16 (641) 682-7137