Excelsior Springs Nursing & Rehab

We would like to point out that this nursing home's inspection score exceeded its overall grade. This facility earned a B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility received its second best category grade in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a decent grade. Our long-term care grades are vital for patients seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated just 74.44445 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses commit to residents as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

Turning to the final area, we gave this nursing home a D for our short-term care category. This was the facility's worst category grade. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. With a grade this poor in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this place was well below average in several staffing metrics we looked at. The nursing home supplied substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.