Wilton Retirement Community is in Wilton, Iowa. With an A overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the United States. At the end of the day, this nursing home is a no brainer for most people. As you will see below, this nursing home performed equally well in our category grades. In fact, we gave it straight A's!
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Wilton Retirement Community
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Aquatic Therapy
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Long-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.13793 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Nurse Quality
Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. There are many datapoints within this category. Most of these criteria reflect levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning patients at least once a day.
Short-term Care Quality
In our last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care grade. This wrapped up a first-rate profile. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Wilton Retirement Community Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Wilton Retirement Community, 4.05% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Wilton Retirement Community, 5.17% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients which suffered falls which caused serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Wilton Retirement Community, 1.74% of Patients had UTIs
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that have experienced a UTI. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it is problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Wilton Retirement Community, 18.97% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Wilton Retirement Community, 15.79% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Wilton Retirement Community, 0.94% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression may indicate lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Wilton Retirement Community, 97.93% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Wilton Retirement Community, 21.93% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Some experts believe that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Wilton Retirement Community, 14.14% of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that maintained mobility. Many argue that mobility is vital to patients physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Wilton Retirement Community, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Wilton Retirement Community, 14.14% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Trinity MuscatineAcute Care Hospitals 11.38 miles away1518 Mulberry Avenue Muscatine Iowa 52761Voluntary non-profit - Private(563) 264-9100
Nearby Dialysis
- University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics - Muscatine10.88 miles away3465 Mulberry Ave Muscatine Iowa 52761Dialysis Stations: 12 (563) 262-9303
- Fmc - Muscatine11.42 miles away311 Parham St Muscatine Iowa 52761Dialysis Stations: 10 (563) 323-3300