Sarcoxie Nursing Center

On top of receiving a strong overall rating, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We gave it an A for this area, which is one of our highest grades. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Contributing to its profile, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. Short-term care grades are often employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing rating is mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care, was this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. This really was one of the couple of dings in a quality report card. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 93.85965 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.