St Peters Manor Care Center

St Peters Manor Care Center is one of a mere three available nursing homes located in Saint Peters, Missouri. This nursing home received an overall score of F. In our view, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. In spite of all this, this nursing home did just fine in our inspections category, which you can find more information about below.

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with too many deficiencies flagged. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our long-term care score and that actually wound up as its second best category. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated only 75.36232 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.67 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This place provided only 2.8 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had really poor scores in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients having falls which led to serious injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.

The last category we rated is short-term care, where this nursing home received a rock bottom grade here also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. Our short-term care grades are probably most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 30.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.