Luther Manor Retirement & Nursing Center

Luther Manor Retirement & Nursing Center is a small non-profit facility in Hannibal, Missouri. It looks like this facility is a relatively poor nursing home. A score of this caliber suggests we found a few red flags. Sadly, this grade is right in line with the city grade in Hannibal, which is also well below average. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

While we were not very complementary of this nursing home's overall grade, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid nursing homes that had a long list of severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. This wound up being its second most respectable category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. In computing our long-term care ratings, we analyze the personal care offered to a facility's patients. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less impressive than its other scores in this category.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. The nursing grade weighs quite a few factors, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides an impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in some of the major metrics we look at, with subpar scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are often reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

The final category we looked at was short-term care, in which this facility was given a poor score in this category as well. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. Our short-term care scores are probably more critical for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. With its score in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 29.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.