Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility

Nursing Home
Independent Living
Memory Care

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility's website

1218 West Locust, PO Box 590,
Bolivar MO 65613

(417) 326-7648

77.92% estimated occupancy ¹

Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility is in Bolivar, Missouri. We gave it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road grade. This place seems to have a few things going for it. The best part of this facility's report card was its remarkable inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It does not appear that we have deficiency data for this nursing home. Without having access to all of the information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it was difficult to really grade the place in the area of inspections.

Long-term Care Quality

We also gave this nursing home a solid grade in the category of long-term care, with a grade of B-. Our long-term care scores are based on the facility's amount of care. This means a vast range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 96.815285 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

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Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home received its third best category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is a respectable score. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is typically a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

Nurse Quality

Moving on to our next category, this facility was awarded a decent nursing grade of C. We analyzed the licensure of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This place averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 9.32% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 3.98% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients who sustained a fall which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 3.42% of Patients had UTIs

This gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients that have experienced a UTI. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 20.31% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more patients with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 24.54% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 4.11% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who are showing signs of depression. Some believe that this is a measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 88.89% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 14.76% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 15.81% Percentage of Residents

This indicates the percent of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 1.64 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 15.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 11.79 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility, 72.5% Percentage of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with successful rehabilitation.