Nodaway Nursing Home

Nodaway Nursing Home is located in Maryville, Missouri. This facility appears to be among the better facilities we looked at. A score of this caliber requires high-end marks across the board. You really can't do much better than this place. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its long-term care rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 91.12903 percent of its patients. This is a few points less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. The last statistic we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.41 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This nursing home has earned near flawless government inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this area. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing score is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Turning to the last area, this facility received a respectable short-term care grade. While this wasn't as impressive as a few of its other category grades, this is still not the end of the world. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 31.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.