Moberly Nursing & Rehab

This facility's overall grade was propped up by the fact that it has earned favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better scores in that category, with a B+. This is a much better score than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Another one of this nursing home's better category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 96.44269 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also gave this nursing home a solid grade in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a B-. Short-term care scores are meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 4.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last category we scored was nursing, proved to be this facility's worst area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that area. Our nursing score is mostly associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This number is quite a bit below average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing rating significantly.