Roaring River Health and Rehabilitation

Roaring River Health and Rehabilitation is an average-sized nursing home located in Cassville, Missouri. This nursing home received an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a lower end rating. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Cassville. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's next most favorable category is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In forming these long-term care grades, we assess the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.73418 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. Our nursing score looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility averaged only 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.

This facility's worst area was short-term care, which is the final category we looked at. For this category, we gave this nursing home a D. Our short-term care grades are likely most meaningful for people needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its abysmal rating in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 36.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.