Windsor Estates of St Charles Snal

Windsor Estates of St Charles Snal is a small facility located in Saint Charles, Missouri. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. Based on our ratings, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

This nursing home earned an inspection score which is stronger than its overall score. Inspection grades are tied to a facility's recent inspections. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B+ in this category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in short-term care. This nursing home received a B in this area, which is one of our better scores. Short-term care grades are often employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. We were quite impressed to find that this place provides its residents measurably more physical therapist hours than most other facilities. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 41.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This facility provided 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which was among the higher totals we found. Lastly, our nursing score also includes some applicable quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home excelled in terms of quantity of nursing hours, it fell short in certain metrics that focused on quality. This facility's nursing rating was hurt by poor performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. We found that 16.5 percent of this nursing home's patients suffered from pressure ulcers.

The last area we scored was long-term care. This facility was given a grade of C in the category. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.53917 percent of its residents. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was less favorable. Here we found that this place had 2.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.