Delmar Gardens of Chesterfield

Delmar Gardens of Chesterfield is located in Chesterfield, Missouri. The city has a total of 59,223 people. We gave this nursing home a B- overall, which is a decent score. This is comparable with the city grade in Chesterfield, which is a B. In spite of Chesterfield having 10 nursing homes to choose from, this facility looks like a perfectly acceptable option. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless government inspection reports in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

In addition, we also would like to point out that this nursing home received strong long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best grade. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 63.261944 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 3.22 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes due to the medical complexity of residents.

Additionally, we gave this facility a B in our short-term care category. This is one of our more impressive scores. Our short-term care ratings are probably more critical for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in this area with 57.6 percent of its patients returning home.

The last category we assessed is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a C in that category. Our nursing rating is based on several data points, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.