New Florence Nursing and Care Center

Located in New Florence, Missouri, New Florence Nursing and Care Center is the only facility we identified in the city. With an overall rating of B-, this looks like a middle of the road facility. Based on our ratings, there are definitely much worse facilities out there. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better scores in that category, with an A. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also fared well in the area of long-term care. For this reason, we awarded it a score of A in that category, which is one of our best grades. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.44444 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.09 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as strong as most of its other scores in this category, this figure may be skewed for some nursing homes due to the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is not a very good score. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is frequently a reliable assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 44.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The last category we scored was nursing. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a very poor score. This is certainly a major concern. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This place provided a meager 3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.