Bothwell Regional Health Center

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also received A+ inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly perfect. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the 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.

This top-shelf nursing home also fared very well in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A+. Only a small group of facilities fared better in this area. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 7.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This facility provided 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Missouri in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient more often.

In our final area, this nursing home also was given an excellent long-term care rating, with an A. This wrapped up a straight A profile. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We weren't able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.