Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home located in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. With an overall score of B-, this looks like a respectable facility. Based on our ratings, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. The best part of this place's profile is is its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its decent overall grade, we awarded this facility an A- for our inspections rating. This is far better than the facility's overall rating. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. Nursing ratings are primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we gave this facility a B in our long-term care category. This is one of our more favorable grades. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 82.178215 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we expected but still a decent figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we looked at was short-term care. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. In our short-term care grade, we strive to create a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 7.05% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 5.14% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 3.56% of Patients had UTIs
This measures the percentage of long-term patients which have sustained a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this statistic may also be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 17.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 22.38% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 5.98% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High rates of depression may reveal worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 91.04% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 16.84% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 19.61% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to preserving the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 19.61 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Chase County Care & Rehabilitation Center, 74.57% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Newman Regional HealthCritical Access Hospitals 18.96 miles away1201 West 12th Avenue Emporia Kansas 66801Government - Local(620) 343-6800
Nearby Dialysis
- Emporia Dialysis17.86 miles away1616 Industrial Road Ste 2004 Emporia Kansas 66801Dialysis Stations: 13 (620) 340-8043
- Fmc Emporia18.74 miles away1602 W 15th Ave Emporia Kansas 66801Dialysis Stations: 9 (620) 343-6800