Northwood Hills Care Center

Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn

Historical Rating

800 N Arthur St, PO Box 187,
Humansville MO 65674

70.25% estimated occupancy ¹

Note: Northwood Hills Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.

Northwood Hills Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Humansville, Missouri. We gave this facility an F, which is really a bottom of the barrel score in our grading scheme. Based on our analysis, this place likely isn't a fit for anyone. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Our inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility also didn't grade out poorly in the area of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a B- in that area, which wound up being another one of its more favorable grades. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 91.16719 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we expected but still a respectable percentage. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.67 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Nurse Quality

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. The nursing score features a variety of factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provided only 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.

Short-term Care Quality

The next area we assessed was short-term care. This facility was given a rock bottom grade of F in this area. Our short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this facility provides significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 44.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Northwood Hills Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 9.56% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who are suffering from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 4.04% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Falls resulting in injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 3.44% of Patients had UTIs

This metric indicates the percentage of long-term care patients who sustained UTI's. UTI's may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 20.38% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that are given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents with cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 24.28% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure tells you the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 4.04% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. Many would argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 89.97% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 14.55% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 15.54% Percentage of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who remained mobile levels. Some experts believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical health.

Hospitalizations

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 1.62 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Northwood Hills Care Center, 15.54 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.