Accura HealthCare of Le Mars

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing grade analyzes a handful of components, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.

This facility also was given a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this category. Our short-term care grade is often used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Moving on to the final area, this facility also performed well in our long-term care category. We awarded it a B+ in this area. This wrapped up a very impressive report card. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.21875 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.