Grandview Healthcare Center

On top of earning a strong overall score, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is based on the facility's recent inspections. We gave it an A- for this area, which is one of our highest grades. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was awarded a favorable short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of B+. It outpaced most nursing homes in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.28099 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we analyzed is nursing, where this nursing home received a B. This facility didn't turn out to have any weak areas. The nursing score weighs quite a few components, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility Missouri in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving patients even once per day.