Village Care Center

Village Care Center is one of four nursing homes in Maryville, Missouri. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is a quality score. Based on our ratings, this facility has quite a bit going for it. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which is addressed in the next section.

On top of being a strong facility overall, this place excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Not many facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this category. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 68.75 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we expected but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.85 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The third category we assessed was short-term care, where this facility received a B- in this area. With our short-term care score, we seek to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home received an acceptable nursing grade of C. The nursing score consists of many data points, however, the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the areas we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are usually reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered.