Holden Manor Care Center

With an address in Holden, Missouri, Holden Manor Care Center is the only option we identified in the area. This nursing home turns out to be a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this place. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

We also found that this nursing home excelled in long-term care. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. The last statistic we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

In addition, this nursing home also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with an A. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Facilities that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. Our nursing score looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, we also considered a few quality-based metrics in this category. While this nursing home did not rank highly in terms of its nursing hours per resident, it performed much better in some of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided with better nursing care.

The final category we scored is short-term care, where this facility was given a C. This turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. This is still not a major area of concern. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 40.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.