Prairie City Rehab & Health Care

Even though we were not high on this nursing home overall, we gave it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. This score is more respectable than the facility's overall score. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. 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. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

We actually gave this facility a very solid grade in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- in this category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's next most favorable area is its short-term care score, where it was given a grade of C. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most important for those in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

The last area we looked at is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a very poor grade here also. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is obviously somewhat alarming. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 85.04673 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points below average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.