Derby Health & Rehabilitation
731 Klein Circle, Derby KS 67037 · (316) 719-2400 · 92.29% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Derby Health & Rehabilitation is a small nursing home located in Derby, Kansas. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ facility, which is the most impressive rating. Based on our analysis, you can't go wrong with this facility. If you look below, you can see this nursing home's category ratings, which are just as strong as its overall score.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 74 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. 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.
Short-term Care Quality
This top notch nursing home also performed well in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A+. Very few facilities performed better in this area. Short-term care scores are crucial for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This facility provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. This is typically a great sign. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility in the nation with 66.6 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on our next area, this nursing home was awarded first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of providing elite levels of nursing care, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This statistic is also significantly better than the average nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
In the final category we assessed, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of A in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home topped off a straight A report card. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this area. This place boasts a really impressive 4.8 hours of nursing care per patient daily, of which a significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With under five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared as well as any facility Kansas in this category. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and a protocol of turning residents even once per day.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Derby Health & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term care residents who are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better