Armour Oaks Senior Living Community

Armour Oaks Senior Living Community is a small non-profit facility located in Kansas City, Missouri. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B-. A grade in this range requires some respectable marks. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. You should also take a look at this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

We gave this facility a grade of A for our long-term care rating. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.81022 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.5 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

We also wanted to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused metrics. We like to look at the percentage of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these datapoints are indicators of the quality of nursing care, since superior care can reduce these issues.

The final category we assessed is short-term care. We gave this facility a D for short-term care, making this the nursing home's least impressive category grade. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this place provides fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 35.4 percent of its residents returning home.