Senath South Health Care Center

Senath South Health Care Center is located in Senath, Missouri. The city has 2,374 people. With an overall score of C, this is likely a middle of the road facility. Based on our assessment, this facility would be a solid choice for quite a few people. The best part of this place's report card is is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with an A-. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Another one of this facility's better category scores was in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Short-term care ratings are critical for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Another reason we rated this facility so highly is that it received an A+ nursing score. The nursing score is based on a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home 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's weakest area was long-term care, which is the final area we looked at. We gave it an F for this area. Despite several solid scores in other areas, this grade is still disappointing so we would like to to point it out. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care likely don't provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities offer. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 75 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points lower than what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.27 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.