Meadow View of Harrisonville Health & Rehab

Meadow View of Harrisonville Health & Rehab is an average-sized facility located in Harrisonville, Missouri. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road score. Based on our ratings, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in this category with an A-. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those 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 health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the road grade in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 89.45578 percent of its patients. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 1.95 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.

Our last category is short-term care, in which we gave this facility a C in that area. In determining our short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 23.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.