Warrensburg Manor Care Center

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a positive long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a B+ in this category, which is one of our better. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. This nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a substantially lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

This nursing home was awarded its next most favorable category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a C in this category, which is a respectable grade. Short-term care grades are typically employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services To have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It performed more favorably in this metric. In fact, we found that it was above average in this area with 55.7 percent of its patients returning home.

The last area we analyzed is nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. Of course, this grade hurt the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. When calculating a facility's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses are with residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This place offered a meager 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics hurt this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.