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  • La Porte City Specialty Care receives highest rating

    (October, 2019) Staff at La Porte City Specialty Care are celebrating a perfect survey administered by the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals. They received zero deficiencies.  There are 439 nursing facilities in Iowa. Generally, only 5 percent are found to be deficiency-free.

    Skilled nursing facilities are inspected annually to evaluate services and renew state licensure. Unannounced, state surveyors arrive to interview, observe, and check records for several days. Surveyors determine compliance with regulations governing areas such as quality of care, residents’ rights,...

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  • Dunlap Assisted Living celebrates insufficiency free survey

    Dunlap Assisted Living, affiliated with Dunlap Specialty Care has plenty to celebrate. They’ve recently completed their bi-annual survey based on the Recertification Monitoring Evaluation program conducted by the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals (DIA). The results of the survey are an insufficiency free report. This means no deficiencies were reported.

    DIA survey teams conduct on-site inspections to assess the quality of care and services provided to residents and tenants.  The recertification is based on tenant/family satisfaction, program history, and on-site monitoring...

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