Creve Coeur Manor

Even though we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care rating this year. We gave it a B- in that area. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other nursing homes. Finally, nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a D for its long-term care grade, which is not an impressive grade. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 96.875 percent of its patients, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Turning our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F here. Since this data is compiled by government inspectors, we heavily weight poor results in this area. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we need to point out that this place was assessed large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This usually signifies that a nursing home's poor performance spanned more than one year.