GRUNDY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (GRUNDY CENTER, IA) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.480
State:	0.684

Number of Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.490
Iowa:	0.621

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.980
State:	1.298

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.010
Iowa:	0.037

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.010
Iowa:	0.043

Complaint Deficiency

Emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Keep each resident's personal and medical records private and confidential
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Allow residents to easily view the results of the nursing home's most recent survey
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Develop policies and procedures for influenza and pneumococcal immunizations
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies quarterly, and develop corrective plans of action
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Assist those residents who need total help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

Here:	8.3%
Iowa:	14.5%

Percent of long-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

Here:	3.6%
Iowa:	11.4%

Percent of long-stay residents who have had a catheter inserted and left in their bladder

This Nursing Home:	1.6%
State:	4.7%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

This Nursing Home:	5.9%
State:	7.5%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

This Nursing Home:	3.8%
Iowa:	3.9%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

Here:	100.0%
Iowa:	98.0%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
Iowa:	97.7%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	21.2%
Iowa:	21.0%

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatients who had a follow-up mammogram or ultrasound within 45 days after a screening mammogram.

Here:	5.500%
State:	8.069%

Outpatient CT scans of the abdomen that were combination (double) scans.

Here:	0.033%
State:	0.138%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack got an ECG

Here:	3
State:	6

Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got aspirin within 24 hours of arrival

Here:	98.0%
State:	97.2%

Pneumonia

Percent of Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival

Here:	100.0%
Iowa:	97.4%

Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.8%

Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)

Here:	82.0%
Iowa:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	100.0%
Iowa:	94.3%

Surgery

Percent of Surgery Patients given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour before surgery) to help prevent infection

Here:	100.0%
Iowa:	97.8%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)

Here:	97.0%
State:	96.3%

Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	98.7%

Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.3%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	97.2%

Percent of Surgery Patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery who had hair removed using a safer method

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
Iowa:	99.8%

Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.6%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Nursing Home:	13.2%
Iowa:	12.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	24.4%
State:	23.7%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	18.3%
State:	17.9%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Fewer than 100
Survey Response Rate: 53%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	2%
State:	3%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	15%
Iowa:	17%

Always

Here:	83%
State:	80%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	1%
Iowa:	3%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	17%
State:	13%

Always

Here:	82%
Iowa:	84%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	5%
State:	6%

Usually

Here:	24%
State:	25%

Always

This Nursing Home:	71%
Iowa:	69%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	3%
State:	5%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	32%
Iowa:	24%

Always

Here:	65%
State:	71%

How often did staff explain about medicines before giving them to patients?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	22%
Iowa:	15%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	17%
Iowa:	21%

Always

This Nursing Home:	61%
State:	64%

How often were the patients' rooms and bathrooms kept clean?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	4%
State:	6%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	7%
Iowa:	16%

Always

Here:	89%
Iowa:	78%

How often was the area around patients' rooms kept quiet at night?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	4%
State:	7%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	12%
State:	30%

Always

This Nursing Home:	84%
Iowa:	63%

Were patients given information about what to do during their recovery at home?

Yes

This Nursing Home:	88%
Iowa:	85%

This Nursing Home:	12%
Iowa:	15%

How do patients rate the hospital overall on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)?

6 or lower

This Nursing Home:	6%
State:	6%

7 or 8

Here:	14%
Iowa:	20%

9 or 10

Here:	80%
Iowa:	74%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Nursing Home:	2%
State:	3%

Yes, probably

Here:	7%
State:	22%

Yes, definitely

Here:	91%
State:	75%

GRUNDY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - GRUNDY CENTER, IA

Staff Information

Complaint Deficiency

Quality Measures

Use of Medical Imaging

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

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