Pleasantview Home

Pleasantview Home is an average-sized non-profit nursing home in Kalona, Iowa. Sporting an overall rating of A, this nursing home is ranked among the best nursing homes we assessed. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top fifth of all facilities in the country. Headlining this facility's stellar profile is its inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

On top of being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually perfect. Our inspection ratings are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an A. The nursing rating features many subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.1 hours per resident on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than nearly any other facility provides. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.

Turning our next area, this nursing home was awarded first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A- in this area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.536125 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.47 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the final category, this facility received an excellent short-term care rating. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in that area, rounding out a straight A profile. In our short-term care category, we strive to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 50.1 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.