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Diversicare of St Joseph

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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3002 North 18th St,
Saint Joseph MO 64505

(816) 364-4200

54.94% estimated occupancy 1

Diversicare of St Joseph is a large facility in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Our scoring system was not very kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall rating of F. As far as we can see, you'd be better off to avoid of this place. Nevertheless, this nursing home did just fine in our inspections category, which you can find more information about below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Dialysis Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Amputee Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Bariatric Care
  • Optometry
  • Oncology Care
  • Blood Administration
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

Although we gave this facility a horrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid facilities that had too many deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

This nursing home's next best score is long-term care, but it still received just a D in that category. This turns out to be a relatively poor score. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.84726 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its short-term care grade. Short-term care grades are generally employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical nursing home. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

The last category we graded was nursing, in which this facility received a very poor grade in this area as well. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is obviously very concerning. There are a number of criteria within this area. Many of the subcategories reflect levels of nurse staffing. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in both of these statistics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Diversicare of St Joseph Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 11.46% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are an measure of quality of care.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 5.76% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Closer supervision can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A-minus

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 0.68% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely caused by a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 18.09% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for many medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 18.18% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: D

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 26.32% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents showing depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression could be a sign worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 97.54% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: F

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 29.45% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 16.46% of Residents

This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels. Many argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: D

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 16.46% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 15.69% of Patients

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Diversicare of St Joseph, 77.74% of Resident

This is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements.

Scores for Saint Joseph, MO

  • Overall Rating has a grade of D
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of C
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus

Looking for more options? Saint Joseph, Missouri has 6 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Mosaic Life Care at St JosephAcute Care Hospitals 3.9 miles away5325 Faraon Street Saint Joseph Missouri 64506Voluntary non-profit - Private(816) 271-6000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Robidoux Dialysis1.65 miles away802 Jules St Saint Joseph Missouri 64501Dialysis Stations: 16 (816) 233-3340
  • St. Joseph Dialysis4.58 miles away5514 Corporate Dr Suite 100 Saint Joseph Missouri 64507CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (816) 671-1948