John Knox Village Care Center is located in Lees Summit, Missouri. The city has a total of 96,149 people. After receiving an A overall grade, this facility has the distinction of being one of the 50 best facilities in Missouri. This is just about as good of a facility as you're going to find. Headlining this facility's remarkable profile is its short-term care rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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John Knox Village Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Pain Management
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Short-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned a strong short-term care score. In fact, this proved to be its best category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing score is primarily based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients more often.
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Long-term Care Quality
Moving on our next category, we gave this nursing home a score of A- for its long-term care grade. This is a dominant rating. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.0456 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category. This completed this place's straight A report card. Our inspection grades are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
John Knox Village Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In John Knox Village Care Center, 6.88% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In John Knox Village Care Center, 5.54% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care residents who have sustained a fall which caused major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In John Knox Village Care Center, 5.32% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by lower quality nursing care. More frequent bathing can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In John Knox Village Care Center, 10.75% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In John Knox Village Care Center, 20.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In John Knox Village Care Center, 3.14% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. High rates of depression may indicate a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In John Knox Village Care Center, 98.75% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In John Knox Village Care Center, 9.05% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In John Knox Village Care Center, 13.16% of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In John Knox Village Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In John Knox Village Care Center, 13.16% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In John Knox Village Care Center, 2.15% of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In John Knox Village Care Center, 76.6% of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Lees Summit, MO
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Lees Summit, Missouri has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Saint Luke's East HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.18 miles away100 N E Saint Luke's Boulevard Lees Summit Missouri 64086Voluntary non-profit - Private(816) 347-5000
- Truman Medical Center LakewoodAcute Care Hospitals 3.64 miles away7900 Lee's Summit Rd Kansas City Missouri 64139Voluntary non-profit - Private(816) 404-7000
- Lee's Summit Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.58 miles away2100 Se Blue Parkway Lees Summit Missouri 64063Proprietary(816) 282-5000
- Centerpoint Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.22 miles away19600 East 39th Street Independence Missouri 64057Proprietary(816) 698-7000
- Research Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.71 miles away2316 E Meyer Blvd Kansas City Missouri 64132Proprietary(816) 276-4000
- St Joseph Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.38 miles away1000 Carondelet Dr Kansas City Missouri 64114Proprietary(816) 942-4400
- St Mary's Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.49 miles away201 Nw R D Mize Rd Blue Springs Missouri 64014Voluntary non-profit - Church(816) 228-5900
- St Lukes Hospital of Kansas CityAcute Care Hospitals 12.71 miles away4401 Wornall Road Kansas City Missouri 64111Voluntary non-profit - Private(816) 932-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- Dialysis Clinics, Inc - Lees Summit1 miles away219 Nw Executive Way Lees Summit Missouri 64063Dialysis Stations: 12 (816) 554-2711
- Isd - Lee's Summit Renal Center2.34 miles away100 Ne Missouri Rd Suite 100 Lees Summit Missouri 64086CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (816) 524-3312
- Lee's Summit Dialysis4.27 miles away1831 Se Blue Parkway Lees Summit Missouri 64063Dialysis Stations: 12 (816) 554-1950
- Fmc Dialysis Services of Raytown6.07 miles away11503 E 63rd St Kansas City Missouri 64133Dialysis Stations: 24 (816) 353-3080
- Grandview Dialysis7.05 miles away13812 S 71 Hwy Grandview Missouri 64030Dialysis Stations: 12 (816) 763-1179
- Davita Blue Ridge Dialysis7.13 miles away8608 E 63rd St Kansas City Missouri 64133Dialysis Stations: 20 (816) 353-6100
- Eastland Dialysis8.33 miles away19101 E Valley View Pkwy Ste E Independence Missouri 64055Dialysis Stations: 20 (816) 795-6018
- Fmc - Centerpoint8.95 miles away19401 E 37th Terrace Court South Suite 200 Independence Missouri 64057Dialysis Stations: 14 (816) 795-6559