Forsyth Care Center

Forsyth Care Center is a nursing home located in Forsyth, Missouri, a city with a total of 5,708 people. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a quality grade. You can definitely do much worse than this place. Fortunately, this place didn't have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections is its best category grade. In that area, we awarded it an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility was awarded a strong short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It was above average in this area with 55.4 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 77.557755 percent of its patients. This is a bit below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. The last statistic we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 1.77 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is close to average in this area.

The final area we graded was nursing. We awarded this facility a B- in that category. The nursing score is based on many factors, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages just 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also considered a few quality-based statistics in this category. Although this place did not rank well in terms of its nursing hours per resident, it performed better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home fared better than the national average. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided with better nursing care.