Meramec Nursing Center

Nursing Home
Adult Day Care

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Meramec Nursing Center's website

940 Mattox Drive,
Sullivan MO 63080

(573) 468-7733

81.83% estimated occupancy ¹

Meramec Nursing Center is in Sullivan, Missouri. With an overall rating of A-, this facility is among the more impressive nursing homes we assessed. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is just about as as good as it gets. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its nursing grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Home Making
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling

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Nurse Quality

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for its nursing grade. The nursing category is based on several datapoints, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a resident more frequently.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility also was elite in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Only a select group of nursing homes received a better grade in this category. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. 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 only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

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Facility Inspections

This facility also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best grades in that area, with an A-. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

The final area we rated was short-term care. This nursing home received a better than average short-term care score in our assessment, with a grade of B-. Although this was not as strong as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless an acceptable score for this area. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Meramec Nursing Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Meramec Nursing Center, 9.28% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Meramec Nursing Center, 3.89% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term stay residents which had falls which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indication of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Meramec Nursing Center, 3.39% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. However, this metric can also be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Meramec Nursing Center, 20.47% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Meramec Nursing Center, 24.32% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Meramec Nursing Center, 4.19% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Meramec Nursing Center, 88.53% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Meramec Nursing Center, 14.79% Percentage of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Meramec Nursing Center, 14.68% Percentage of Residents

This metric tracks the percent of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

In Meramec Nursing Center, 1.7 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to maintaining the physical health of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Meramec Nursing Center, 14.68 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Meramec Nursing Center, 11.55 Percentage of Patients

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Meramec Nursing Center, 72.81% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with superior rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

Missouri Baptist Sullivan HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.13 miles away751 Sappington Bridge Rd Sullivan Missouri 63080Voluntary non-profit - Private(573) 468-4186