Savannah Heights

Savannah Heights is a small nursing home located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. This nursing home received an excellent grade of A- overall. This is even better than the city grade of A- in Mount Pleasant, which is also well above average. Based on our assessment, you can't go wrong with this facility. This nursing home's impressive report card was highlighted by its nursing rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. There are a number of datapoints included in this category. Many of these datapoints relate to nurse staffing. This place provides an incredible 5.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With less than 5 percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Moving on our third category, this facility was given an excellent short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a score of A in that category. In crafting these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The last category we analyzed is long-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. This turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. With our long-term care grade, we look at the sheer quantity of services provided by a nursing home, as well as some quality data points. On top of considering the very solid quantity of care provided by aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were happy with the facility's vaccination statistics. By way of example, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.77778 percent of its residents, which is above average. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.29 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.