Northwood Hills Care Center
800 N Arthur St, PO Box 187, Humansville MO 65674 · (417) 754-2208 · 80.41% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Northwood Hills Care Center is an average-sized nursing home in Humansville, Missouri. Featuring an overall grade of C, this looks like a solid nursing home. You could certainly do worse than this facility. One of the major highlights of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
We also awarded this facility an impressive score in long-term care. This facility received a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 74.78006 percent of its residents, which is slightly lower than we expected. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this facility an D. Our nursing rating considers a number of datapoints. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. With a meager 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were well below average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this area. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we looked at was short-term care, which is this nursing home's worst category. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is certainly very disappointing. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. With its score in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 33.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Northwood Hills Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better