Chi Health St Francis
2116 West Faidley Avenue, Grand Island NE 68803 · (308) 398-5880 · 59.72% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Chi Health St Francis is a small non-profit nursing home located in Grand Island, Nebraska. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded nursing homes we looked at. In fact, it was given our most impressive rating. Not surprisingly, this is actually the highest rated facility in the city. We also gave this facility strong ratings in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 36 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Church related
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall score, we gave this nursing home an elite grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in this area with 65.5 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.
Long-term Care Quality
We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility excelled in our long-term care category. We gave them an exemplary grade of A+ in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of providing well above average levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. This combination proved to be effective as this place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing rating considers a number of factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 5.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This was one of the better figures we found. In addition, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in several of the quality measures we looked at. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers could be avoided by offering better nursing care and a protocol of turning patients more often.
Facility Inspections
Finishing off this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this facility an elite grade of A- for our inspections rating. With this grade, the nursing home completes its straight A report card. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Chi Health St Francis Quality Metrics
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better