Lawrence County Manor

Lawrence County Manor is a nursing home located in Mount Vernon, Missouri. This city has a population of 8,494 people. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is a decent facility. This facility has some things working in its favor. We were also pleased to discover that this nursing home was consistent in all four of our categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This score is far better than its overall rating. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Additionally, we also wanted to point out that this facility was given impressive short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in this category, with a B. This turned out to be the facility's second highest score. Short-term care scores are important for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's impressive grade in this category is that it offers a significantly greater volume of hours of physical therapy than the average nursing home. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 39.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home rather than remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home received its third best category score in the area of long-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. In our long-term care category, we focus more on the quantity of services provided by a facility, along with a series of qualitative datapoints. This nursing home's vaccination records were not as strong as its number of nursing hours per resident. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 81.481476 percent of its residents. We'd love to see some improvement in this area in the future. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.62 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is somewhat concerning, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of patients.

The next area we graded was nursing. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in that category. The nursing score is based on a handful of subcategories, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than average. In calculating our ratings, we add additional weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are usually good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.