Webb City Health and Rehabilitation Center

Although we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B+ for our long-term care rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. In fact, without this category, this place's profile would have been even worse. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 78.59155 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly less than we expected but still a respectable percentage. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.93 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home was just about middle of the road in this area.

Another strength for this facility is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with an B+. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Our next area we analyzed is short-term care, where this nursing home was given an F. In our short-term care category, we seek to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Considering its grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The last item we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 45.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final category we scored was nursing. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in this category. The nursing grade is based on numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This place offered only 2.7 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.