Communities of Wildwood Ranch is an average-sized nursing home located in Joplin, Missouri. It looks like this is a very respectable facility. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable rating. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this nursing home. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive profile is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section
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Communities of Wildwood Ranch
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To pair with its favorable overall performance, we gave this place an A for the area of inspections. Inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility was awarded a favorable long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 74.12141 percent of its residents. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. When computing our nursing scores, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did well in this subcategory. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient even once per day.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we scored was short-term care. This nursing home was given a B- in this area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 5.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Communities of Wildwood Ranch Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 8.2% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term stay patients which suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 2.88% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Falls are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 5.67% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often associated with worse hygiene protocols. Closer supervision reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 10.36% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients who are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 17.18% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 3.91% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 83.94% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 15.27% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 18.08% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 18.08% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 19.7% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Communities of Wildwood Ranch, 79.12% of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements.
Scores for Joplin, MO
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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