The Ozarks Methodist Manor

This facility's best category grade came in long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. It actually outpaced most facilities in this category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 78.4689 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is slightly less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Surprisingly, this facility actually earned a good score in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we gave it a B- for that category, which is one of our better grades. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care grade. This is well below average in this category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Given its weak grade in this category, we were not shocked to learn this facility provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

The last area we scored was nursing, which ended up being this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this area. We scrutinized the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. On top of receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric.