Rockwell Community Nursing Hom

Rockwell Community Nursing Hom is a small facility in Rockwell, Iowa. It looks like this nursing home is among the best nursing homes we found. Receiving an A+ in our grading scheme requires excellent scores across the board. We rated this facility in the top 100 nursing homes in Iowa, which is a distinguished list. Headlining this nursing home's exemplary profile is its inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of datapoints, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Finally, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home Iowa when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care offered.

The third area we assessed is long-term care. Contributing to its top-shelf resume, this facility also performed well in this category. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A in the area. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our last category, this facility received a high-end short-term care rating. We awarded it a grade of B+ in this area, wrapping up one of our more impressive report cards. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. This place performed respectably in this area with 48.4 percent of its residents returning home.