Oelwein Health Care Center is one of just a few nursing homes located in Oelwein, Iowa. With an overall rating of B+, this facility should work for most prospective patients. Based on all of the relevant data, you can do much worse than this place. We were also pleased to find that this nursing home did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about these categories is available below.
Oelwein Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Colostomy Care
- Lymphedema Care
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Our inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility fared well in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of A- for that area, which happens to be one of our better grades. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we looked at is short-term care. We awarded this facility a solid grade in that category, with a B-. While this is not as favorable as several of this facility's other grades, it is still nothing to be ashamed of. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Oelwein Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 6.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 3.69% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are routinely the result of poor nursing care. More supervision reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 3.09% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 16.77% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents which are given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 18.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents who were prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 4.48% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 94.58% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 16.82% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 19.24% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 19.24 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Oelwein Health Care Center, 79.45% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Mercyone Oelwein Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 0.43 miles away201 Eighth Avenue Se Oelwein Iowa 50662Voluntary non-profit - Church(319) 283-6000
- Buchanan County Health CenterCritical Access Hospitals 13.97 miles away1600 First St East Independence Iowa 50644Voluntary non-profit - Other(319) 332-0999
- Community Memorial Hospital Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 16.05 miles away909 West First Street Sumner Iowa 50674Voluntary non-profit - Private(563) 578-3275
Nearby Dialysis
- Buchanan County Dialysis13.97 miles away1600 1st Street East Independence Iowa 50644Dialysis Stations: 12 (319) 334-7437