Qhc Mitchellville

Although we did not give this facility a good overall score, we actually gave it a strong score in the category of short-term care, where it received a B+. Our short-term care grades are presumably more important for individuals in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. It does not look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We also gave this facility a strong grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. This is better than most nursing homes in this category. Nursing grades are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Iowa in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a patient even once per day.

Sadly, this nursing home's third best category was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared relatively badly. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 98.71795 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

In our last category of inspections, this facility received an F here. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we heavily weight poor results in this area. For nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection grade, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This typically suggests that a facility's bad performance spanned more than one year.