Chetopa Manor

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are with residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Kansas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a resident more often.

In addition, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

The third category we graded is short-term care. This facility received an impressive short-term care score, with a grade of B+ in the area. Our short-term care grades are vital for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The next area we graded was long-term care, in which this facility was given a B-. This was this facility's weakest area. This is nevertheless not a terrible score. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's personal care instead of the skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.4023 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.