New London Specialty Care

Services and Housing Options

Assisted Living, Nursing Home, Hospice, Respite, Respite, Skilled Nursing, Rehabilitation

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New London Specialty Care Description

You can expect small, hometown personal care from the caring, dedicated professionals at New London Specialty Care. Southeastern Iowa's best kept secret, we offer private and semi-private rooms with top-notch professional staff to deliver the highest quality of care for seniors in our community. At our facility, we work with each resident to create a personalized care plan that helps them regain and maintain strength, flexibility and mobility. Our team of physical, occupational and speech therapists provide daily visits to help residents achieve their goals.

Parent Organization

New London Specialty Care is a member of a larger group of communities called Care Initiatives

Services

New London Specialty Care provides 24-hour Skilled Nursing Care with Accelerated Care Plus Therapy Equipment and Bariatric Accommodations. They offer Beauty Shop/Barber Shop Care Initiatives, Hospice Care, Discharge Planning/Home Visits, Individualized Care Plans, Intravenous (IV) Therapy, Medication Management, Occupational Therapy, Outpatient Therapy, Pain Management, Pastoral Services and Physical Therapy. All of these services are designed to provide patients with the best possible care and support.

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Employee Reviews for Care Initiatives in New London, Iowa

3.5 out of 5 stars. Based on 4 reviews

Employees working for Care Initiatives in the New London, IA area generally have positive things to say about their experience. They appreciate the good management, the great staff, and the good starting pay. However, they feel that the facility could be great if there was a stronger working structure in place, better training for caregivers, and more rules and better communication between staff and upper management. Employees also feel that upper management should care more about the residents and staff, rather than just their own pockets. They also suggest that management should be more disciplined when it comes to staff who are rude and have attitudes. Employees also mention that they enjoy their job and the care they provide for the residents, but it can be difficult when they feel unwanted. Overall, employees appreciate the care they provide for the residents and the support they receive from their co-workers, but suggest that the facility could be improved with better communication and more discipline.

Employee Reviews for Care Initiatives

3.27 out of 5 stars. Based on 204 reviews

Employees generally have positive things to say about working for Care Initiatives. They appreciate the availability of hours, the enjoyable work environment, and the majority of staff who treat the residents like family. However, there are some areas of improvement that employees have identified. They feel that the benefits could be better, operations could be managed better, corporate management could use a lesson on how to treat their long term employees, and there is a need for more reliable workers. Employees also suggest that management should follow through on their promises, treat employees better, provide more support to facility staff, and offer more incentives to full time employees. Additionally, they suggest that management should be more honest with employees and review rules, regulations, and policies that everyone is required to follow.

Information from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Overall Ratings

New London Specialty Care is a nursing home with unfortunately low ratings, reflected in its 1-star overall assessment - the lowest rating possible. This places the facility in the bottom 20% of care homes in terms of overall rating, a statistic that underscores its performance as being lower than the state average. In addition, New London Specialty Care has been given a 1-star health inspection rating, again the lowest achievable, which situates it in the bottom 10% of facilities based on this measure, well below the average for the state. While somewhat higher, the quality rating of the nursing home is still unimpressive, landing in the bottom 40% of facilities and just slightly under the state average, representing yet another area for potential improvement.

Staff Ratings

New London Specialty Care, a nursing home, stands distinct in several aspects pertaining to its staffing patterns. Though the facility noticeably falls in the bottom half when it comes to nursing aid staffing hours per resident per day, providing an average of 2.12 hours a resident per day, which is less than the state's average of 2.32 hours. Correspondingly, it also ranks in the lower 30% in regard to the LPN staffing hours per resident per day with an average of 0.65 hours, surprisingly higher than the state average of 0.58 hours. Despite being in the bottom half for licensed staffing hours and physical therapist staffing hours per resident per day, New London Specialty Care excels with 1.38 and 0.05 hours respectively, both surpassing the state averages of 1.32 and 0.04 hours. Significantly, the nursing home secures a position in the top 40% for RN staffing hours per resident per day, even though its 0.73 hours is marginally less than the state's average of 0.74 hours.

Covid Data

The New London Specialty Care nursing home is renowned for its commitment to health and safety, ranking in the top 30% of facilities for its resident vaccination rate. Reflecting this dedication, 80.0% of the nursing home's residents are up to date with their latest vaccinations, comfortably surpassing the state's average of 71.8%. Notably, this dedication extends to the nursing home's staff as well, with a sterling record placing them in the top 10% of facilities for staff vaccination rates. An impressive 79.6% of the facility's staff are current with their vaccination schedules, demonstrating a level of commitment that far outstrips the state's staff average of just 24.2%.

Quality Measures

New London Specialty Care, a nursing home that ranks among the top 10% of facilities for the percentage of residents who received an antianxiety or hypnotic medication, boasts an impressive 7.0%. This figure is notably less than the state's average of 19.36%. However, the facility falls into the bottom half in terms of the percentage of residents administered the flu vaccine, with a rate of 96.75% that is still higher than the state average of 95.39%. Additionally, the nursing home is in the lower 20% of facilities regarding the frequency of residents with a catheter inserted and left in their bladder, with a rate of 2.9% exceeding the state's statistic of 2.59%. Regardless, the New London Specialty Care's commitment to residents' care is evident in its proactive approach to medication management and proactive procedures.

Emergency and Hospitalization Quality Measures

New London Specialty Care is a nursing home that faces significant challenges in several key areas. It falls within the lower 30% of facilities with a rate of 2.34 hospitalizations per 1000 days, a rate higher than the state's average of 1.51. Similarly, in the aspect of outpatient emergency department visits per 1000 days, it lands in the bottom 40% with a rate of 1.21, albeit this figure is slightly less than the state's average of 1.27. The nursing home also struggles in terms of short-stay residents who have had outpatient emergency department visits, finding itself within the bottom 10% of facilities. A staggering 24.35% of its short-stay residents end up having outpatient emergency department visits - a rate significantly higher the state's average of 13.44%. Furthermore, New London Specialty Care also lingers in the bottom half of facilities when it comes to the rehospitalization of short-stay residents after an initial nursing home admission, with a rate of 22.58% in comparison to the state's 20.63%.

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