Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility is a small nursing home in Kansas City, Missouri. It looks like this nursing home is one of the top nursing homes we assessed. A score in this range requires excellent marks across the board. In fact, we were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it as one of the 10 highest graded facilities in Kansas City. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's remarkable profile is its nursing rating. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
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Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Blood Administration
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Nurse Quality
In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing grade weighs a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to its superb resume, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that area. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 87.09677 percent of its residents, which is a few points lower than we were hoping for. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also 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 a remarkably low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Adding to its remarkable profile, this nursing home also was awarded a superb short-term care score, with a grade of A-. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more important for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Facility Inspections
Completing its excellent profile, this facility also performed well in our inspection category. We gave it a B+ for that area. Our inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 4.6% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term patients which suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 4.3% of Patients had Serious Falls
This gauges the percentage of long-term patients who have experienced a fall leading to severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 7.78% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often the result of nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care can limit the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 21.51% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for treating a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 10.71% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 0% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 90.27% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 7.55% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of erosion of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 20.1% of Residents
This is the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 20.1% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 12.89% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility, 82.56% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Kansas City, MO
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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