Advanced Health Care of Overland Park

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing score is mostly tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another area of strength for this nursing home is in the area of inspections. Inspections proved to be one of its best categories. In that category, we awarded this facility a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings are not the end of the world.

The last category we assessed was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a grade of C. This turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. This is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In calculating our long-term care grades, we scrutinize the personal care offered to the nursing home's patients. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on vaccination rates. Finally, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.