Nazareth Living Center
#2 Nazareth Lane, Saint Louis MO 63129 · (314) 487-3950 · 94.21% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Nazareth Living Center is a large non-profit nursing home located in Saint Louis, Missouri. We awarded this nursing home an overall rating of A-, which is an extremely impressive grade. Indeed, it proved to be ranked among the fifteen highest graded facilities in the city. We simply can not say enough favorable things about this nursing home. As you can see below, this place also performed just fine in our category grades. It's hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 121 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility also received an excellent short-term care grade, with an A. Short-term care scores are crucial for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be a real strength for this facility. It outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 64.5 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.3 hours per patient on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than nearly any other place offers. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded is long-term care. This facility received an above average long-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in the area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of offering very impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.61496 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.56 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Facility Inspections
Finishing off its excellent profile, this nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a score of B+ for that area. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Nazareth Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients which developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls which result in injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some 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 is the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are typically used to treat patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better