Hunter Acres Caring Center

Hunter Acres Caring Center is in Sikeston, Missouri. The city has 23,123 people. We gave this facility a B- overall, which is a solid grade. This is comparable with the city grade in Sikeston, which is a B. This facility seems to have a few things going for it. The best part of this nursing home's profile was its exemplary inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to note that this facility was awarded a great long-term care score. In fact, it received one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A-. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 85.843376 percent of its residents, which is slightly below what we expected. This facility was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.38 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. The nursing grade assesses many factors, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home really did not perform very well. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is its worst category. Our short-term care grade is often used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 17.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.