Westwood Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center

    3100 Warrior Ln, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901
    • Assisted Living
    • Skilled Nursing

    Compassionate, clean facility, excellent therapy

    I've been very pleased with the compassionate, respectful staff and family-style care here. Nurses, CNAs and aides are educated, kind and responsive-therapy is excellent and residents make tangible recovery progress. The facility is clean, well-decorated with lots of engaging activities and a large day room for visitors; communication with family and coordination with doctors is excellent. I highly recommend this place.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.52·(44)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.5
    • Staff

      2.7
    • Meals

      3.5
    • Amenities

      2.3
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate nursing assistants and aides
    • Attentive, family-style direct care
    • Educated and clinically capable nursing staff
    • Strong coordination with local hospitals and physicians
    • Effective physical and occupational therapy services
    • Clean, well-maintained resident rooms and common areas
    • Engaging activity program promoting socialization and cognition
    • Responsive communication on routine issues
    • Quick-responding aides in many shifts
    • Welcoming, well-decorated public spaces and large family day room

    Cons

    • Understaffing during nights and weekends
    • Inconsistent medication-administration and monitoring processes
    • Delays in responding to call lights and illness events
    • Gaps in wound care and infection-control follow-up
    • Variable cleanliness and unit-level sanitation
    • Equipment-access and transportation coordination problems
    • Weaknesses in discharge planning and care transitions
    • Inconsistent staff training and supervisory oversight
    • Inconsistent family communication on critical clinical matters
    • Facility maintenance and environmental upkeep variability

    Summary of reviews

    Reviews describe a facility with a clearly mixed performance profile. Many families and residents praised the direct-care staff—certified nursing assistants, nursing aides, and therapists are frequently described as compassionate, attentive, and effective. Therapy services, particularly physical therapy, receive consistent positive mention for contributing to recovery and mobility. Rooms and several common areas are often noted as clean and well kept, and the facility offers an active program of activities and roomy family spaces that support social engagement and visiting.

    At the same time, the reviews identify several operational and clinical vulnerabilities. A recurring pattern is understaffing, especially on nights and weekends, which reviewers tie to delays in responding to call lights, extended waits for assistance, and family members stepping in to provide basic care. Related concerns include inconsistent medication-administration practices and gaps in routine clinical monitoring (for example, delayed blood-sugar checks and uneven wound-care follow-up). These issues have contributed to family anxiety about infection control and clinical continuity in some cases.

    Facility-level systems and logistics are another area of mixed feedback. Positive aspects include strong collaboration with local hospitals and physicians and generally responsive handling of routine questions. However, reviewers also reported weaknesses in discharge coordination, improper or delayed referrals, and difficulties accessing specialized equipment and transportation when needed. Maintenance and environmental upkeep appear uneven: many residents described spotless rooms and attractive public spaces, while others noted worn furniture, occasional locked or nonfunctional fixtures, and sanitation concerns in specific units.

    Management and supervision are described as effective in some respects but inconsistent in others. Several reviewers praised administration and nurses for professionalism and clear communication; others expressed frustration about turnover, lapses in supervisory oversight, and instances where family communication about clinical changes was inadequate. Training and supervisory consistency for both CNAs and RNs emerges as an area for improvement to reduce variability in care quality.

    For prospective residents and families: tours and intake conversations should include targeted questions about staffing levels across shifts, medication-administration and monitoring protocols, wound- and infection-control policies, access to bariatric and specialized equipment, discharge-planning procedures, and mechanisms for urgent family communication. The facility demonstrates strengths in compassionate direct care and therapy, but the operational and clinical process gaps identified suggest the value of verifying safeguards and escalation pathways before admission.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

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    Westwood Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center is located at 3100 Warrior Ln, Poplar Bluff, MO, 63901.

    About Westwood Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center

    Westwood Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center sits on the outskirts of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at 3100 Warrior Lane, and it serves people who need both short-term rehab and skilled nursing care, with 132 certified beds but usually about 70 residents each day, so there's some room to spread out and try to make things comfortable for folks. The place has a focus on health and recovery, with licensed nurses on duty all day and night, and you'll find registered nurses required to be onsite at all times, with staff who include RNs, LPNs, and certified nursing assistants, and they do provide at least 0.55 hours of registered nurse care and at least 2.45 hours of aide care per patient each day, though the total nurse staffing averages about 2.98 hours per resident daily, which falls below the state average, but the nurse turnover rate is a bit lower than usual in Missouri, and that's something. The center offers physical, occupational, and speech therapy on both an inpatient and an outpatient basis, so people who don't stay full-time can still come in for help, and there's a SeniorCise Exercise Program, which sounds like it's made to keep seniors active in a way that's safe and manageable for them, along with different therapy options such as nutritional, psychological, audiological, dental, podiatry, and optical services.

    The living spaces include a sunroom with a big-screen TV, roomy lounge areas, a beauty and barber shop open to both men and women, and cable television in each resident's room, and the facility has dietary stations open 24 hours a day, plus a buffet dining option, so people can eat when hungry. People can join in on Bible study, music time, geography games, church meetings, checkers, and even horseshoes, with pastoral support available, so spiritual and social needs can be met along with physical care. The center runs a Day Program for supervised care if someone just needs a safe spot during the day, and there's respite and hospice care offered too. Some residents use the shuttle bus or arrange rides through SMTS or BATS when they need to get out, and the center connects to Guardian Pharmacy for medications. An administrator named Joetta Martin oversees things, and the center belongs to the Missouri Health Care Association and follows certain health and safety standards, even though recent inspections found 16 deficiencies, including one for infections and others for food handling and notification issues about bed holding during transfers.

    The place says it works on personal attention and care, and admission stays open all the time, whether someone's using Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, or private pay, and there's supervised social time set up in a safe environment, with amenities and staff designed to help people recover and feel at home for however long they stay. The facility partners with several sponsors and service providers, and keeps up communication for administration, but some information about the center isn't always shared, so people looking should ask questions in person if something matters to them.

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    Westwood Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center offers assisted living and skilled nursing.

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    No, Westwood Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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