Florissant Valley Health & Rehabilitation Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent danger to patient safety or health. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

This facility's next best score is short-term care, but it nevertheless received a grade of just D in that category. This turns out to be a well below average grade. Our short-term care grade is often used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. With its abysmal rating in this category, we were not shocked to discover that this facility offers far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 5.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in determining our grade in this area. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home was given a rock bottom grade of F in this category. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 27.619047 percent of its patients. This is pretty significantly lower than average. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.