Clark County Nursing Home

On top of receiving an elite overall score, this facility earned an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to alert you to the fact that this nursing home received a first-rate score of A in our long-term care area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. In computing a facility's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses commit to residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Missouri in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning residents even once per day.

In our final category, we gave this facility an A+ for its short-term care score. This rounded out a first-rate report card. Short-term care grades are often employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. It does not appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.