Sheffield Care Center

Sheffield Care Center is the sole option we found in Sheffield, Iowa. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. You could definitely do much worse than this nursing home. If you look below, you will see this facility's category grades, which are also quite good.

One of the reasons this ended up being a strong facility is that it earned a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections is its best category. In that area, we gave this facility an A. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility truly excelled in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Very few facilities performed better in this area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 80.39216 percent of its residents, which is a few points lower than we expected. This facility was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.46 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Nursing scores are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we looked at is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a B. This facility ended up being very solid in all areas we analyzed. Our short-term care grade is often employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. To have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 40.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.