Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category usually have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor dings aren't the end of the world.

Another one of this facility's above average category scores came in the category of long-term care. We gave them one of our stronger scores in that category, with a score of B. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 73.78641 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Nursing scores are largely based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a resident more frequently.

The last area we graded was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.