Excelsior Springs Nursing & Rehab

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.