Clark's Mountain Nursing Center

Clark's Mountain Nursing Center is a nursing home in Piedmont, Missouri, which has 5,440 people. With an A overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. We really can not say enough good things about this facility. If you look below, you can see this facility's category scores, which are also quite good.

To pair with a strong overall grade, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspection category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to alert you to the fact that this facility was superb in our long-term care category. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. The last statistic we assessed is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.11 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, this place was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

In our final area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for our short-term care grade. This wrapped up an elite profile. In calculating these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it was above average in this area with 54 percent of its patients returning home.