Life Care Center of Sullivan

With an address in Sullivan, Missouri, Life Care Center of Sullivan is one of a mere two nursing homes in the city. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B-, which is a solid score. At the end of the day, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. One of the major highlights of this facility's profile is its remarkable inspection reports, which is addressed in the next section.

To pair with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a positive score in our long-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B+ in this category. 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. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 93.2 percent of its patients, which is a few points lower than we expected. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.79 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home was just about middle of the road in this area.

This nursing home's third most favorable area is short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This place performed respectably in this area with 48.1 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home's worst area is nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area. Even with some acceptable scores in other areas, this grade is still alarming so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home offered a meager 3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.