Azria Health Olathe

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. Its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A-. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Additionally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received positive long-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our higher scores in this category, with a grade of B. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 55.612247 percent of its patients, which is slightly below what we anticipated. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we rated was short-term care. For this category, we awarded this facility a B-. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.