Baisch Nursing Center

With an address in De Soto, Missouri, Baisch Nursing Center is one of a mere three available nursing homes in the city. With an overall rating of B-, this is likely a solid nursing home. This grade is right in line with the city grade in De Soto. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its remarkable inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a great long-term care score. Indeed, it received one of our most impressive grades in this category with a grade of A-. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.36709 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. The last statistic we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 2.63 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

As it turns out, this nursing home only received a D for its short-term care grade, which is not a score to write home about. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more meaningful for people requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. In this place's case, we found that it provides fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 44.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this facility's short-term care score.

The next category we graded is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is a very poor score. This is clearly a major concern. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This place offered only 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.