Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is located in Clearwater, Kansas. Our scoring system was not favorable to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall grade of F. This facility doesn't seem to have much going for it. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score and that actually turned out to be its next most favorable score. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. With its grade in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 41.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home averaged just 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to being below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 93.36493 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is somewhat lower than we expected but still a respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. Although it had 1.88 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was not bad due to it having some more complex patients. This is its best feature in this category