Chariton Park Health Care Center

We gave this nursing home an A- for our long-term care score. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 93.52679 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a few points lower than we anticipated but still a decent figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Inspections is another area where this nursing home excelled. We gave this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. While this place 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 means the inspectors did not 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 always a good sign.

This facility received a strong nursing grade this year as well. It earned one of our higher grades in that area with an above average grade of F. When calculating a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we graded was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is a poor grade. This is obviously a significant concern. Our short-term care grades are presumably most critical for those in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its poor score in this category, we weren't shocked to learn that this facility provides far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.