Birch View Nursing Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Birch Tree, Missouri. This facility appears to be one of the higher-graded facilities we looked at. A score of this caliber requires high-end marks across the board. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top third of all facilities in the country. The best part of this facility's strong profile is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph
Birch View Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
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Facility Inspections
In addition to earning a quality overall score, this facility also received excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that area, with a grade of A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Nursing scores are mostly based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning our third category, this facility received first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in that category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.44751 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed was short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a B-. This actually was this facility's least impressive category. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Birch View Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Birch View Nursing Center, 9.28% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who have pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Birch View Nursing Center, 3.89% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Birch View Nursing Center, 3.39% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Birch View Nursing Center, 20.47% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Birch View Nursing Center, 24.32% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Birch View Nursing Center, 4.19% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who are showing depressive symptoms. High levels of depression may be an indicator a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Birch View Nursing Center, 88.53% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Birch View Nursing Center, 14.79% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the decline of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Birch View Nursing Center, 14.68% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Birch View Nursing Center, 1.7 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to the physical health of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Birch View Nursing Center, 14.68 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Birch View Nursing Center, 11.55 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.