Carroll House

Carroll House is a small nursing home in Carrollton, Missouri. After receiving an A overall grade, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 50 best nursing homes in Missouri. Based on our assessment, this place is really as good as it gets. One of the best aspects of this facility's exemplary report card is its long-term care grade. We discuss long-term care in the next section.

We also found that this nursing home excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. This facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.71 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facility also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This score is based on the place's inspection reports. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem 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 an excellent sign.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing grade is based on quite a few factors, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. With 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the national average. Lastly, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it fared as well as any facility Missouri in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B-. While this wound up being its weakest category grade, this is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.