Carrie Elligson Gietner Home

Carrie Elligson Gietner Home is located in Saint Louis, Missouri. This city is one of the most populated metropolitan areas in the country with has a total of 927,396 people. Sporting an overall score of C, this is likely a decent nursing home. This grade isn't too far off the city grade for Saint Louis, which is a B-. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.

We gave this facility an A for our long-term care grade. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.36709 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. The last statistic we assessed was its hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 2.39 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. In fact, we awarded this facility an A- for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than its overall score. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. The nursing score consists of a handful of factors, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provided only 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident each day. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.

The next area we scored is short-term care, which is this facility's worst category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this category. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.