Excelsior Springs Nursing & Rehab
1003 Meadowlark Lane, Excelsior Springs MO 64024 · (816) 630-3145 · 67.68% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Excelsior Springs Nursing & Rehab is an average-sized nursing home located in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. This nursing home turns out to be a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. This nursing home truly has plenty of good features. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 108 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To pair with its strong overall performance, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Among the reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it was awarded a favorable long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care is its second highest category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 71.586716 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.6 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing grade includes a handful of subcategories, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 2.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home received a strong short-term care score in our assessment, with a C. While this is not as dominant as several of its other category grades, this is nevertheless a decent score for that category. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility and found that this nursing home performed better here. In fact, this nursing home performed better than most facilities in this area with 52.5 percent of its patients returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Excelsior Springs Nursing & Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better