Centerburg Respiratory & Specialty Rehab Center

Although we gave this nursing home a terrible overall grade, we gave it an A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid places with too many deficiencies flagged. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Additionally, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the category of short-term care. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is typically a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last area we rated is long-term care, where this nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade here also. Sadly, it received an F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to only 81.355934 percent of its patients, which is somewhat concerning. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.