Delmar Gardens of Overland Park

One of the reasons this ended up being a decent facility is that it received a favorable inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category scores came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this area. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's third most favorable category came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a C. Long-term care scores are based on the facility's amount of nursing care. This includes a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 94.52888 percent of its residents. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's weakest category was nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. In this category, we awarded this facility a D. Our nursing score is mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This place also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing score quite a bit.