Creve Coeur Manor

We were not able to award this facility any respectable grades. We wanted to point out that it received an F for its long-term care grade. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this facility administered the vaccine to just 87.21311 percent of its patients, which is somewhat alarming. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Among this facility's host of poor scores was its F in the category of short-term care. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We suggest you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This facility had 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we need to point out that this place was assessed large government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This often means that a facility's poor track record spanned several years.

The final category we rated is nursing. This facility received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that category. Our nursing grade consists of several components, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This place also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this measure.