Panora Specialty Care
805 East Main, Panora IA 50216 · (641) 755-2700 · 83.04% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Panora Specialty Care is a small non-profit facility in Panora, Iowa. Sporting an overall grade of C, this is likely a decent facility. Based on our analysis, this facility has some redeeming qualities. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its exemplary inspection rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 46 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an B. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best category turned out to be long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our long-term care grades are critical for people looking for non-healthcare services such as personal care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 97.9021 percent of its patients, which is an above average statistic. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.43 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we assessed was short-term care. It received an F in this area, which is an abysmal grade. This is clearly a significant concern. Our short-term care grade is typically used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. With its weak grade in this area, we were not stunned to learn that this place provides substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 28.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Panora Specialty Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better