Jordan Creek Nursing & Rehab

Jordan Creek Nursing & Rehab is a facility located in Springfield, Missouri, a city with 219,752 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of B+. A score of this caliber requires above average marks in most areas. Indeed, we ranked this nursing home as the fifth best facility in Springfield. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care category, where it earned a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.681526 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.47 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing grade includes several components, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a resident more often.

Turning to our last area, this nursing home received an acceptable short-term care score. Even though this is not quite as impressive as many of its other grades, this is still not a poor grade. With our short-term care category, we seek to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 44.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.