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Ruthven Community Care Center

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  • Independent Living
  • Assisted Living

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-minus
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2701 Mitchell Street Box 0,
Ruthven IA 51358

(712) 837-5411

77.17% estimated occupancy 1

Ruthven Community Care Center is a senior living facility located in Ruthven, Iowa, a city with 1,310 people. With an overall score of B-, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. You can definitely do worse than this facility. One of the best aspects of this facility's profile is its stellar inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Other
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Nursing grades are largely associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

Switching gears to our final area, this nursing home did not perform very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is this nursing home's poorest grade. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to just 90.22556 percent of its residents, which is well below average. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Ruthven Community Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 13.51% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents which suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are an measure of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 1.5% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents which had falls which resulted in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 4.84% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 23.2% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 6.19% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 0% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay patients exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 92.21% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 17.7% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate decline of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 11.97% of Residents

This is the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 11.97% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-minus

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 8.24% of Patients

This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In Ruthven Community Care Center, 74.72% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Palo Alto County HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 9.99 miles away3201 1st Street Emmetsburg Iowa 50536Government - Local(712) 852-5500
  • Spencer Municipal HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.93 miles away1200 1st Avenue East Spencer Iowa 51301Government - Local(712) 264-8300
  • Avera Holy Family HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.78 miles away826 North 8th Street Estherville Iowa 51334Voluntary non-profit - Church(712) 362-2631

Nearby Dialysis

  • Warner Dialysis Center Spencer14.24 miles away1721 W 18th St Spencer Iowa 51301Dialysis Stations: 14 (712) 264-6464

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=165486