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Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-minus
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1202 Heartland Road,
Saint Joseph MO 64506

(816) 671-8500

90.41% estimated occupancy 1

Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph is a nursing home located in Saint Joseph, Missouri, which has a total of 87,116 people. We awarded this nursing home an acceptable overall grade of B-. We were somewhat surprised to learn that this proved to be the highest graded facility in Saint Joseph. Based on our analysis, this nursing home has some redeeming qualities. The best part of this nursing home's profile was is its short-term care score. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

This nursing home really excelled in the area of short-term care, with an impressive grade of A in this area. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. Nursing ratings are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility 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 avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients more often.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

This facilities third most favorable area is long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this category. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 45.575222 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than average. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Facility Inspections

Grade: C

Turning our last category, inspections proved to be this facility's weakest link. It received a C in this category. Inspection scores relate to a facility's inspections. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This tells you that it dodged the more significant categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: F

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 15.83% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 6.19% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a fall which resulted in major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 4.27% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this datapoint could be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 14.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 12.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 0.57% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: F

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 63.81% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: F

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 28.1% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Some believe this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 26.33% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for patients physical and mental health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 26.33% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 14.36% of Patients

This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In Benedictine Living Community-St. Joseph, 72.49% of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.

Scores for Saint Joseph, MO

  • Overall Rating has a grade of D
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of C
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus

Looking for more options? Saint Joseph, Missouri has 6 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Mosaic Life Care at St JosephAcute Care Hospitals 0.62 miles away5325 Faraon Street Saint Joseph Missouri 64506Voluntary non-profit - Private(816) 271-6000

Nearby Dialysis

  • St. Joseph Dialysis1.78 miles away5514 Corporate Dr Suite 100 Saint Joseph Missouri 64507CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (816) 671-1948
  • Robidoux Dialysis4.19 miles away802 Jules St Saint Joseph Missouri 64501Dialysis Stations: 16 (816) 233-3340

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=265784