Gower Convalescent Center, INC
323 South Highway 169, Gower, MO 64454 · Clinton County · 82 certified beds · avg 70 residents/day · certified since Apr 1, 2006 · Medicare and Medicaid certified
Certified for both programmes. Certification means the facility can bill Medicaid — it does not mean a Medicaid-funded bed is free right now, so ask directly. Who pays for nursing home care →
3/5
Health inspection rating (on-site)
0
Serious findings on record
$6,351
Fines, last 3 years
4.52
Nurse hours/resident/day (adjusted)
What health inspectors found (on-site government inspections — the most independent evidence available)
Health inspection rating: ★★★☆☆3/5 · CMS overall rating: 3/5
The health inspection star above is graded on a curve within each state — a set share of each state's facilities gets each star level — so a facility can have few citations and still rate 2–3 stars if others in its state did even better. The overall rating combines that inspection score with staffing and self-reported quality measures.
All citations in the current public record (27)
CMS publishes roughly the last three inspection cycles plus recent complaint investigations. Older surveys drop out of the record as new ones are completed.
| Date | Severity | What the facility was cited for |
|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | F · Potential for harm, facility-wide | The facility did not get its food from approved, safe sources, or did not store, prepare, and serve food according to professional food safety standards. |
| May 21, 2026 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not make sure residents were fully informed about their own health, care, and treatments in a way they could understand. |
| May 21, 2026 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not honor residents' right to manage their own money and financial affairs. |
| May 21, 2026 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not properly hold, secure, and manage residents' personal money that was deposited with it for safekeeping. Facilities holding residents' funds must keep careful, honest accounts. |
| May 21, 2026 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not provide safe and appropriate respiratory care — such as oxygen, breathing treatments, or care for residents on breathing equipment — for residents who needed it. |
| May 21, 2026 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not honor residents' individual preferences, choices, values, and beliefs in their daily life and care. |
| Mar 17, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not protect residents from abuse or neglect. This covers physical, mental, and sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect, by anyone — staff, other residents, or visitors. · from a complaint |
| Feb 21, 2025 | F · Potential for harm, facility-wide | The facility did not get its food from approved, safe sources, or did not store, prepare, and serve food according to professional food safety standards. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not treat residents with dignity and respect, or did not honor their rights to make their own decisions and communicate freely. This is one of the most fundamental resident rights. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not keep residents' personal and medical information private and confidential. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not develop a resident's complete plan of care within 7 days of the full assessment, or the plan wasn't prepared, reviewed, and updated by a team of health professionals as required. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility provided care that did not meet professional standards of quality — the accepted standards that nurses and other clinicians are expected to follow. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not provide treatment and care that follows the doctor's orders and matches the resident's own preferences and goals. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not keep the environment free of accident hazards, or did not provide enough supervision to prevent accidents like falls. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not provide safe and appropriate respiratory care — such as oxygen, breathing treatments, or care for residents on breathing equipment — for residents who needed it. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility's medication error rate was 5 percent or higher — meaning too many doses were given incorrectly, such as the wrong drug, dose, or time. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not label drugs according to professional standards or did not store them in locked compartments, with controlled drugs (medications with a high risk of misuse) kept under a separate lock. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not make sure that paid feeding assistants — staff hired to help residents eat and drink — had the training they need. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not have or follow an effective program to prevent and control infections — such as proper hand washing, cleaning, and isolation practices. This is the most commonly cited deficiency nationwide. |
| Oct 26, 2023 | F · Potential for harm, facility-wide | The facility did not get its food from approved, safe sources, or did not store, prepare, and serve food according to professional food safety standards. |
| Oct 26, 2023 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not create and follow a basic care plan covering a new resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of admission. The first days are when a new resident is most vulnerable. |
| Oct 26, 2023 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not develop or follow a complete care plan for each resident — the written roadmap covering all of a resident's needs, with measurable goals and timelines. |
| Oct 26, 2023 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility provided care that did not meet professional standards of quality — the accepted standards that nurses and other clinicians are expected to follow. |
| Oct 26, 2023 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility used bed rails without first trying safer alternatives, or without assessing the resident's safety risk, discussing the risks and benefits with the resident or family, getting consent, and installing the rails correctly. |
| Oct 26, 2023 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not have or follow an effective program to prevent and control infections — such as proper hand washing, cleaning, and isolation practices. This is the most commonly cited deficiency nationwide. |
| Oct 26, 2023 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not regularly inspect bed frames, mattresses, and bed rails for safety, or the rails and mattresses were not attached safely to the frames. |
| Oct 26, 2023 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not develop a resident's complete plan of care within 7 days of the full assessment, or the plan wasn't prepared, reviewed, and updated by a team of health professionals as required. |
Inspection trend by year
Citations from standard inspections decreased between the last two inspection cycles (12 → 6).
| Year | Citations | Serious (G–L) | Worst severity that year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | 0 | F |
| 2025 | 13 | 0 | F |
| 2026 | 6 | 0 | F |
Counts reflect the current CMS public record (~3 inspection cycles plus complaint investigations); years with no surveys show no row. Inspection frequency varies, so compare severity as well as counts.
Fines and enforcement (last 3 years)
1 fine totaling $6,351.
| Date | Type | Amount / length |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 2023 | Fine | $6,351 |
Nurse staffing (from payroll records, adjusted for how much care residents need)
| Measure | This facility | Missouri avg | U.S. avg | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hours per resident per day) | 4.52 | 3.66 | 3.95 | top 19% in Missouri; top 23% in the U.S. |
| Registered Nurse hours | 0.33 | 0.49 | 0.69 | bottom 34% in Missouri; bottom 13% in the U.S. |
| Weekend total nurse staffing | 4.01 | 3.22 | 3.50 | top 18% in Missouri; top 22% in the U.S. |
| Weekend RN hours (not acuity-adjusted) | 0.28 | 0.33 | 0.48 | top 45% in Missouri; bottom 28% in the U.S. |
| Total nursing staff turnover (%) | 17.4 | 56.0 | 45.8 | top 1% in Missouri; top 2% in the U.S. |
| RN turnover (%) | 0.0 | 47.8 | 42.9 | — |
Hours are per resident per day, case-mix adjusted by CMS so facilities caring for sicker residents can be compared fairly (same basis as the CMS staffing star). "Top X%" means better than most facilities: more staffing hours, or lower turnover. Raw (unadjusted) reported hours: total 3.70, RN 0.27, weekend 3.29. Staffing rating: 4/5.
Self-reported quality measures
Note: these ratings are based on data the facility reports about itself to CMS. They are not independently verified by inspectors, and can look better than inspection findings. Give more weight to the inspection results above.
Quality measures rating: 2/5 · long-stay residents: 2/5 · short-stay residents: —/5
Who owns this facility
Non profit - Corporation
| Owner / manager | Type | Role | Stake | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gower Convalescent Center INC | Organization | 5% or Greater Direct Ownership Interest | 100% | 08/03/1967 |
| Ingle, Jerry | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 02/06/2006 |
| Ingle, Jerry | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 10/14/2005 |
| Johnson, Barbara | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 10/10/2012 |
| Johnson, Barbara | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 10/10/2013 |
| Moore, Amberly | Individual | W-2 Managing Employee | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/01/2021 |
| Moore, Amberly | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/23/2020 |
| Moore, Amberly | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/07/2025 |
| Perry, Jason | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/18/2024 |
| Snyder, Charles | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 02/06/2006 |
| Snyder, Charles | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 10/10/2012 |
| Spaeth, Linda | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/01/2021 |
| West, Natalie | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/18/2024 |
Questions to ask on your visit
Generated from this facility's actual citation record — bring them to a tour and ask the administrator directly.
- "What did your most recent kitchen inspection find, and can I see how food is stored and prepared?"
- "How do you explain health changes and treatment options to residents and their families?"
- "How are residents' personal funds handled here, and what records can families review?"
- "How do you manage residents' personal funds, and how often do families receive an accounting?"
- "How many residents here use oxygen or breathing equipment, and who checks that equipment each shift?"
- "How do you learn each resident's personal preferences and make sure staff actually follow them?"
- "Tell me about this abuse or neglect citation — what happened, and what specific changes did you make afterward?"
- "Can you give me examples of how your staff protect residents' dignity in everyday care, like bathing and dressing?"
- "What is your current ratio of nursing staff to residents on day, evening, and weekend shifts?"
- "Can I see the results and plan of correction from your most recent state inspection?"
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Facility data as of CMS processing date 2026-08-01. CCN 265800.