Claridge Court

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Short-term care grades are vital for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This particular nursing home provided 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 Kansas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving patients at least once a day.

Turning to our fourth category, this facility received an extremely favorable long-term care score. We awarded it a grade of B+ in that category, wrapping up one of our more favorable profiles. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 84.375 percent of its residents, which is a bit below what we expected. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.