Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility
1301 Tullison Rd, Kansas City MO 64116 · (816) 888-7930 · 55.12% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
With an address in Kansas City, Missouri, Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility is on a list of 32 nursing homes in the city. We gave this nursing home a strong overall score of A+. As a matter of fact, it turned out to be the second best facility in Kansas City according to our rankings. Based on our assessment, this nursing home should be a great choice for most people. Headlining this facility's remarkable profile is its long-term care score, which you can find in the next section.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. For residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. This facility's vaccination statistics weren't as strong as its nursing hours data. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 86.53846 percent of its residents. We'd like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. The last statistic we looked at is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 1.95 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given an A+ for its short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we looked at. This is a great sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 73 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. Our nursing score is mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place boasts a really impressive 5.9 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. With below five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers could be avoided by offering better nursing care and a system of moving residents more often.
Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. In fact, we gave it a score of A- for that category. This topped off its straight A report card. Our inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mccrite Plaza at Briarcliff Skilled Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which developed pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better