St Anthony's Regional Hospital
406 East Anthony Street, Carroll IA 51401 · (712) 794-5455 · 94.81% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
St Anthony's Regional Hospital is one of only three available nursing homes in Carroll, Iowa. We awarded this nursing home an overall rating of A, which is an extremely impressive rating. In fact, this proved to be the highest graded facility in the city. In addition, this nursing home is also based in a hospital, which can often mean the nursing home offers a wider array of medical services. This facility also received phenomenal ratings in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 79 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Church related
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing ratings are primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With under five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category.
Long-term Care Quality
Building on its remarkable resume, this facility also received a superb long-term care grade, with a score of A-. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to offering very impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. This combination proved to be effective as this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.43 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Short-term Care Quality
In the last category we looked at, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility finished off a straight A profile. Short-term care grades are often employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. 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. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Anthony's Regional Hospital Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better