East Prairie Nursing Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. This turned out to be its best category. In this category, we gave this facility an A. The nursing score analyzes many subcategories, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a patient more frequently.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. Inspection grades are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being this facility's third best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 70.83333 percent of its residents. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we scored is short-term care. We gave this facility one of our more favorable grades in this category, with a grade of B. Although this wasn't as high as several of its other grades, it is nevertheless a fine score. Our short-term care grades are presumably more important for folks in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.