Lewis County Nursing Home District is located in Canton, Missouri, a city with 4,219 people. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road grade. Based on all of the relevant data, there are certainly much worse places out there. One of the highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Lewis County Nursing Home District
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Government - County
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we also wanted to note that this nursing home received strong long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more impressive grades in that category, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's second best grade. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.45652 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are seeing patients and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. Although this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this metric. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents more often.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we graded was short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is an abysmal score. This is certainly a significant disappointment. In calculating these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. It appears that this facility was below average in many staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Lewis County Nursing Home District Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 3.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 10.87% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of long-term care patients that have had a fall which caused major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 12.93% of Patients had UTIs
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients which had urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 8.72% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used for treating several conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 11.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 0.59% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could be a sign lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 99.23% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 8.92% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 4.97% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 4.97% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Lewis County Nursing Home District, 9.2% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Nearby Hospitals
- Ssm Health St. Mary's Hospital-AudrainAcute Care Hospitals 19.92 miles away620 E Monroe Mexico Missouri 65265Voluntary non-profit - Private(573) 582-5000