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Buhler Sunshine Home

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  • Assisted Living
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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400 S Buhler Road,
Buhler KS 67522

(620) 543-2251

84.9% estimated occupancy 1

Buhler Sunshine Home is a small non-profit facility in Buhler, Kansas. This facility appears to be ranked among the more impressive nursing homes we looked at. A score of this caliber requires very strong marks across the board. We simply can not say enough great things about this nursing home. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive profile is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • No Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Corporation
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it earned a very impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In this category, we awarded this facility an A. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this facility was given a top-shelf score of A in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 86.62421 percent of its patients. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

The last area we rated turned out to be this facility's poorest area. However, even in its worst category we still gave it a decent grade of B- in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are critical for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It doesn't look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Buhler Sunshine Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 8.7% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-plus

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 2.55% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 4.03% of Patients had UTIs

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents who experienced UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint could be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 24.03% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This measures the percent of long-term residents who were given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 18.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-minus

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 5.33% of Patients

This is the percent of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. High levels of depression may be a sign a lower level of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 92.75% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 22.22% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 19.89% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 19.89% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 15.44% of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In Buhler Sunshine Home, 92.62% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some believe this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Hutchinson Regional Medical Center IncAcute Care Hospitals 7.32 miles away1701 E 23rd Avenue Hutchinson Kansas 67502Proprietary(620) 665-2001
  • Mercy Hospital, IncAcute Care Hospitals 14.96 miles away218 E Pack Street Moundridge Kansas 67107Voluntary non-profit - Church(620) 345-6391
  • Mcpherson Hospital IncAcute Care Hospitals 17.93 miles away1000 Hospital Drive Mcpherson Kansas 67460Voluntary non-profit - Private(620) 241-2250

Nearby Dialysis

  • Dialysis Center of Hutchinson7.65 miles away1901 N Waldron Hutchinson Kansas 67502CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (620) 728-0440

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=175404