Butler Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare
416 S High Street, Butler MO 64730 · (660) 679-6158 · 53.06% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Butler Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare is located in Butler, Missouri, a city with a total of 7,109 people. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. In our view, you'd be better off to avoid of this nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection rating. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 98 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we gave this nursing home a poor overall score, we awarded it a B for our inspections rating. This was the result of the nursing home receiving a quality government inspection report this year. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home averaged a meager 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This statistic is far below the national average. This facility also had abysmal scores in several of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hours. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than twice the national average in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second least favorable category was long-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 95.757576 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 2.28 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not bad since it had some more complex patients.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed was short-term care, in which this facility received a rock bottom score in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is definitely somewhat alarming. In our short-term care score, we try to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Given its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this place was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. The last item we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 38.2 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Butler Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients which have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Some experts argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is 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 datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better