Cassville Health Center for Rehab and Healthcare

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Unfortunately, this place was assessed a category L deficiency, which is not what we expected based on its inspection rating. This category indicates the government inspectors identified a widespread deficiency putting patient safety or health in immediate jeopardy. While other aspects of this nursing home's inspection report were favorable, we have some reservations.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was awarded a grade of just D in this area. Unfortunately, this proved to be its second best grade. Short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this place provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility wound up receiving a bottom of the barrel score in our long-term care category. It received an F in this category. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category may not provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes offer. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 90.29851 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a bit less than the national average. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The final category we scored is nursing. This facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that area. Our nursing score is primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This place offered only 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.