Rolla Presbyterian Manor

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. The nursing rating considers many subcategories. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the biggest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our third category, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its long-term care score. This is a very strong rating. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.93617 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final area we rated was short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of A-. This wrapped up a very favorable report card. Few facilities earned an A- or higher in each of our categories. In crafting these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.