Belleville Health Care Center

Belleville Health Care Center is a facility located in Belleville, Kansas. This city has 2,563 people. This nursing home received a rock bottom overall score based on the data we assessed. Based on our ratings, this place is not a good fit for any prospective resident. Finally, inspections was the only shining light in our review of this nursing home. You can find more information about this category below.

Although this facility's overall score was as bad as it gets, it performed pretty 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. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that have a long list of deficiencies. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility's next most favorable score is long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still fared somewhat poorly. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home fared much worse with 3.21 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, this statistic is nearly double the national average.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. There are a host of criteria within this grade. Many of these datapoints reflect levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. In addition to ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these datapoints. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.

The next category we rated was short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade here as well. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is obviously a major concern. Short-term care scores are vital for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 18.5 percent of its residents returning home.