Chetopa Manor

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. We weighed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed as well in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave them one of our more favorable grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is typically a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last category we scored ended up being this facility's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it an acceptable grade of B- in long-term care. Our long-term care grade is used to score a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 95.4023 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.