Superior Manor of Festus

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received a very impressive grade in inspections. Inspections ended up being its best category. In that area, we gave this facility an A. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. It doesn't look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its strong assessment, this nursing home also was given an excellent long-term care grade, with a grade of A-. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 66.666664 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. There are a host of factors included in this area. Many of these factors are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we scored is short-term care, in which this nursing home received a grade of B. Believe it or not, this is this facility's least impressive area. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when it's poorest score still is better than most other nursing homes. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. We weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.