Carthage Health and Rehabilitation Center

Carthage Health and Rehabilitation Center is located in Carthage, Missouri, a city with a total of 23,940 people. Featuring an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road facility. This place has a few things going for it. The best part of this nursing home's report card was its exemplary inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next section.

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this facility's better category scores came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. It actually outpaced most nursing homes in this area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 96.55172 percent of its residents, which is higher than most nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.41 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. While this nursing home did not have as many nursing hours as many other facilities we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator of how carefully a nursing home's nursing staff is tending to its residents. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we graded was short-term care, which proved to be a weak spot for this facility. We gave this facility a D for the area of short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We found that this place was subpar in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we considered the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 39.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.