Platte County Legacy Home

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home also was given an impressive grade in our short-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in that category. In our short-term care score, we strive to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. When determining our nursing ratings, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is well below average. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

Turning to the fourth area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for long-term care. This is the facility's worst category score. Naturally, this grade pulled down the facility's overall grade to a certain degree. Nursing homes that don't score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 82.06896 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.