Hermitage Nursing & Rehab is an average-sized nursing home in Hermitage, Missouri. With an overall grade of B+, this looks like a high quality nursing home. You could definitely do much worse than this place. If you look further down this page, you can see this facility's category grades, which are also quite good.
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Hermitage Nursing & Rehab
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility also earned first-rate health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having access to complete deficiency related data for this facility, it is challenging to evaluate the place in the inspections category.
Short-term Care Quality
Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Our short-term care scores are critical for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our third area, this nursing home also received a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 69.337975 percent of its residents. This is somewhat below what we anticipated. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
The final area we looked at is nursing, in which we awarded it a strong grade of B. This nursing home truly didn't have any weak categories. In calculating a facility's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hermitage Nursing & Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 3.97% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 11.5% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that experienced a fall which resulted in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 3.18% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric may be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 31.91% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 33.72% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 33.04% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 79.67% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 24.9% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Some believe this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 25.72% of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients who were able to retain mobility.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 25.72% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 5.3% of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, 75.78% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.