Willow Care Nursing Home

Willow Care Nursing Home is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Willow Springs, Missouri. It looks like this nursing home is one of the higher-graded facilities we assessed. A score in this range requires very strong scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the United States. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive profile is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in this category with a grade of A. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded a dominant long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this nursing home's second most impressive category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.784195 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also was awarded a favorable short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this area. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. It fared as well as just about any nursing home in Missouri with 56.9 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay patients are able to return home.

The final area we assessed proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. Nevertheless, even its worst category would likely be a highlight for many facilities. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B in our nursing category. Our nursing score features a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average.