Centerburg Respiratory & Specialty Rehab Center

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with too many deficiencies flagged. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this facility an D. The nursing score weighs many subcategories, however, the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

Tragically, this facility received an F for its short-term care score. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. 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 assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final category we looked at was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated just 70.21277 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.