Abbey Woods Center for Rehabilitation and Healing
5026 Faraon St, Saint Joseph MO 64506 · (816) 279-1591 · 84.1% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Abbey Woods Center for Rehabilitation and Healing is one of seven available nursing homes in Saint Joseph, Missouri. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a very poor facility. This place didn't have much going for it. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection score. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although this place's overall score was terrible, it actually fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection grades are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
In our next category, we gave this nursing home an F in the category of long-term care. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.911194 percent of its residents, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. We were far less impressed with the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 4.47 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is more than twice the national average. This is definitely an alarming figure.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is short-term care. This facility's was given an unfortunate short-term care score where it was given a lowly F. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Considering its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 44.5 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home really did not fare well in this area either. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is just about as terrible as it gets. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in computing our score in this category. This facility offered a meager 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Unfortunately, this facility also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Abbey Woods Center for Rehabilitation and Healing Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the decline of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better