Steelville Senior Living
311 N Spring Street, Steelville MO 65565 · (573) 775-5815 · 63.47% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Steelville Senior Living is located in Steelville, Missouri. This is a very respectable facility. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a favorable rating. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's strong report card was its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 72 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Among the reasons we graded this facility so well is that it was given a dominant long-term care score. In fact, long-term care ended up being its second most impressive category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. This nursing home's vaccination records weren't as strong as its nursing hours. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 84.41558 percent of its residents. We'd like to see some improvement in this area in the future. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.64 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best area turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a C. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is frequently a meaningful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 35.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this is below average.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to our fourth area, this facility received an acceptable nursing grade of C. Nursing grades are primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. According to its CMS reports, this nursing home provided an average of 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which was above average. Finally, this place was relatively weak in two of the data points we look at, with subpar scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Steelville Senior Living Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who had a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term patients who are given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical health of patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better