Bethesda Meadow
322 Old State Road, Ballwin MO 63021 · (636) 227-3431 · 52.23% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Bethesda Meadow is a very-large non-profit facility located in Ballwin, Missouri. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable score. Based on our ratings, this place looks like a good fit for most people. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 210 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it earned an impressive inspection score. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In this area, we gave this facility an A. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.
Short-term Care Quality
Adding to this facility's list of strengths, it also received a first-rate short-term care score. We awarded them an elite grade of A- in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. This place fared as well as just about any nursing home in Missouri in this area with 66.3 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, less than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our third category, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. This facility's vaccination data lagged a bit behind some of its other datapoints in this category, such as its nursing hours. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 85.78554 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.97 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility is just about middle of the road in this area.
Nurse Quality
The last category we graded was nursing, in which this nursing home was given a B. This facility proved to be very solid across the board. Nursing scores are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. With 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this nursing home surpassed the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bethesda Meadow Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who experienced falls leading to severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better