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Nick'S Health Care Center

253 East Highway 116, Plattsburg, MO 64477 · 70 beds · For profit - Limited Liability company

The records flag: Medicare's abuse flag is set; 2 citations where a resident was harmed.

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Medicare overall rating
★★★★★
Much below average · 1 of 5
All nursing staff, hours / resident
2.29
RNs, LPNs and aides · state average 3.66
Weekend RN coverage
−32%
vs weekdays
Staff turnover
64%
state average 56%
Medicare's abuse flag is set
Medicare marks facilities cited for abuse on its own comparison site. This one is currently marked.
2 citations where a resident was harmed
Harm was found, without immediate danger to life.

These are drawn straight from Medicare's records. We report what the record says — we don't rate facilities or judge the care given in them.

Who's actually on the floor

Staffing is the thing most closely tied to day-to-day quality of care, and it's the number families most often never see. This is registered nurses only — a smaller figure than the all-staff total above, because it counts the most highly qualified staff on their own — per resident, per day, comparing an average weekday against an average weekend.

Weekdays
0.26 hrs
Weekends
0.18 hrs
MO average
0.49 hrs

Registered nurses only — hours per resident per day. Longer is better.

Registered nurse coverage drops about 32% at weekends.

Staff turnover: 64%

High turnover matters because continuity does — a nurse who knows your mother notices when something is different about her. Someone on their second shift doesn't have that baseline.

What inspectors found

State inspectors visit at least once a year and after complaints. Over the last three years this facility received 30 citations. Raw counts mislead, though — a paperwork slip and a resident being harmed both count as one. Here they are by how serious inspectors judged them.

SeverityCitations
Actual harm
A resident was harmed, without immediate danger to life
2
Potential for harm
No one harmed yet, but conditions could allow it
28
No harm
Rule and paperwork findings
0

7 of these came from someone filing a complaint rather than a routine visit — worth weighing differently, because it means a person picked up the phone. All findings are recorded as corrected.

Medicare has issued $21,948 in fines here over the past three years.

What happened to residents

Everything above this point describes how the facility is run — who is on shift, what inspectors found. These are outcomes: what Medicare recorded happening to the people actually living there, averaged over a year and set against the state.

Over a year, the share of long-stay residents who… HereMissouri
Falls causing major injury 0.0% 4.1%
Pressure ulcers (bedsores) 0.0% 4.5%
Given antipsychotic medication 46.9% 23.5%
Physically restrained 0.0% 0.0%
Urinary tract infections 0.7% 2.3%
Lost the ability to walk unaided 31.6% 17.4%

Lower is better on every line. Covers 2025Q2-2026Q1.

Medicare adjusts these figures for how unwell residents were on arrival, so a home that takes on frailer people is not marked down for it. That adjustment is imperfect where a facility's residents are unusual, which is why the state figure sits beside each number instead of a rank or a score.

Where too few residents met the criteria for a measure to be published reliably, Medicare withholds it and it shows here as not reported.

Disclosed affiliations

Medicare requires every facility to disclose the people and companies connected to it. Most names below are not owners — they are officers, directors, managers, trustees, and what Medicare calls “additional disclosable parties.” The role beside each name is the one Medicare recorded. This is worth reading because operators tend to run their facilities alike: where the same group stands behind a dozen homes, the record across all twelve tells you more than any single inspection does.

NameRole recorded by MedicareSince
Berry, Roderic Managing employee 01/22/2020
Harrup, Jonathan Managing employee 09/13/2016
Kimari, Chiquita Managing employee 03/14/2018
Koenig, Christian Managing employee 07/06/2015
Lewis, Dorothy Managing employee 11/28/2017
Miller, Rebecca Managing employee 07/01/2015
Reliant Care Management Company LLC Operational or managerial control 07/01/2015
Soondrum, Jesse Managing employee 01/10/2020
Wilson, James Managing employee 09/18/2018
Destefane, Richard Corporate officer 05/19/2015

Of the 10 parties disclosed here, 0 hold an ownership interest; the rest are recorded in a management, officer, financial, or other disclosable capacity. A percentage is shown only where Medicare published one — for most disclosed parties it publishes none.

Other options nearby

Most families are choosing between whatever is close enough to visit often — and visiting often is itself one of the better protections a resident has. These are the closest 8 facilities.

FacilityMilesRating Nurse hrsWeekend
Oakridge of Plattsburg
Plattsburg
0.9 3 0.55 −32%
Gower Convalescent Center, INC
Gower
8.5 3 0.33 −15%
Cameron Nursing Center
Cameron
15.0 1 0.22 +1%
Lawson Manor & Rehab
Lawson
15.0 1 0.33 −27%
Quail Run Health Care Center
Cameron
15.7 2 0.46 −25%
Valley Manor and Rehabilitation Center
Excelsior Springs
17.8 1 0.39 −46%
Aspire Senior Living Excelsior Springs
Excelsior Springs
18.1 2 0.31 −49%
Norterre
Liberty
20.4 3 0.54 −54%

Weekend column shows the change in registered-nurse coverage at weekends compared with weekdays.

Worth asking on a visit

Records only tell you so much. These are the questions this facility's particular numbers suggest you ask — go on a weekend if you possibly can.

  1. Can I visit on a Sunday rather than a weekday? How many registered nurses are on duty then, and for how many residents?
  2. Turnover here is about 64%. How long has the director of nursing been in post?
  3. Who will actually be caring for my relative at 3am on a Saturday — an agency nurse or someone on staff?

Where these numbers come from

All figures are published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Different measures cover different periods — some are considerably older than others, so each is dated separately below rather than under one "last updated" stamp.

Ratings & staffing
Staffing hours Jan–Mar 2026; staff turnover calendar year 2025
Inspections & citations
Aug 2023–Jul 2026
Fines & penalties
Aug 2023–Jul 2026
Ownership
Current in the August 2026 CMS file
File release
August 2026

We report what the records say and don't draw conclusions about care quality. If you believe something on this page is wrong — email a correction. It reaches a person, not a form. We check every report, fix what is wrong, and say so on the page; see how we handle corrections. If you work at this facility and our figures disagree with your own records, we want to hear that too.