Qhc Fort Dodge Villa

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received a much better grade for nursing than it received overall. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Our nursing rating is based on a handful of datapoints, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, we awarded this facility a B+ in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable scores. With our short-term care score, we try to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The third area we graded is long-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of C in this category. In the area of long-term care, we analyze the quantity of care provided by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 95.5 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we assessed is inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This pulled down this facility's overall score quite a bit. For facilities with poor inspection ratings, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular facility had 8 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this facility received large government fines totaling over $100,000. This usually signifies that a poor track record spanned several years.