Fulton Presbyterian Manor

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Missouri in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning residents more often.

Turning to inspections, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's inspection reports. We awarded it an A for that category. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility also was given a favorable short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to score a facility's rehabilitation services To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Turning to our last area, this facility was given a strong long-term care rating. Although this isn't quite as strong as a few of its other category grades, this is still one of our better scores we offer. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.