Bethel Health Care Center

Located in North Newton, Kansas, Bethel Health Care Center is the only option we found in this city. This facility is among the most impressive facilities we found. A score in this range requires superb scores across the board. Based on our ratings, you can't go wrong with this place. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its nursing grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

We also want to note that this facility received an A for our nursing rating. In computing our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provides an incredible 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is typically an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly moving patients to avoid bed sores.

This facility has earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was elite in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Only a select group of nursing homes received a better grade in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 95.68965 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.52 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the last area, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its short-term care grade. This wrapped up a first-rate profile. With our short-term care rating, we endeavor to create a sound measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This place excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 37.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.