Spurgeon Manor
1204 Linden Street, Dallas Center IA 50063 · (515) 992-3735 · 85.63% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Spurgeon Manor is in Dallas Center, Iowa. This city has a population of 2,604 people. This nursing home is an A+ facility, which is the absolute highest score. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it as one of the top 25 nursing homes in Iowa. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's remarkable report card is its nursing rating. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 55 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. In calculating a facility's nursing grade, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This facility boasts a really impressive 5.6 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly skilled levels of nurses. This is among the higher totals of nursing hours we found. In addition to providing high levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in Iowa in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
This facility also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This score is based on the facility's recent inspections. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Compounding its first-rate assessment, this facility also was awarded an excellent long-term care grade, with a score of A. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination statistics is first-rate as well. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This combination proved to be effective as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.54 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we analyzed was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded an A. This completed a very strong report card. Not many nursing homes received an A- or higher in each of our categories. Our short-term care grade is often used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. It fared better than most nursing homes in the country with 51 percent of its patients returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Spurgeon Manor Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better