Qhc Winterset North

Although we didn't give this facility a good overall grade, we actually gave it a strong grade in nursing, where it earned a B+. This is better than most facilities in this category. The nursing grade considers a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 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 nursing home 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this facility's better category scores was in the area of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B. It actually fared better than most facilities in this category. Our short-term care scores are probably more critical for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Among this nursing home's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection score. More often than not, this means we found red flags on the facility's government inspection reports. For facilities with poor inspection ratings, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This facility had one category J or K deficiency, which rank among the worst categories of deficiencies. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines in recent years totaling more than $100,000. This often indicates that a facility's poor performance has been an issue for several years.

The final area we graded was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a rock bottom grade in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is definitely very concerning. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 77.22222 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.