Monticello House

Monticello House is in Jackson, Missouri. The city has a population of 24,006 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is a good grade. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this facility. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this facility also earned an elite long-term care grade. We gave it one of our better grades in that area, with an A. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 95.29915 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.7 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home received its third highest category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this category, which is a respectable score. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 42.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.

The last category we looked at was nursing. This facility was given a C for the category. The nursing grade weighs several factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. While this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this subcategory. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning residents even once per day.