El Dorado Care & Rehabilitation Center
900 Country Club Lane, El Dorado KS 67042 · (316) 321-4444 · 67.79% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
El Dorado Care & Rehabilitation Center is a small government-owned nursing home in El Dorado, Kansas. This is a lower end nursing home, with an overall grade of D. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in El Dorado. The city has just one other nursing home. Lastly, this facility had an ownership change in the last year. Hopefully, new ownership is able to elevate its quality standards.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 50 Beds
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Government - State
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
Even though we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to note its relatively favorable long-term care grade this year. We gave it a grade of B in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 88 percent of its residents for pneumonia. The last statistic we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 3.59 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this category, this figure can be skewed for some nursing homes based on some of the medical complexity of patients.
Facility Inspections
Surprisingly, this facility actually received a good grade in inspections as well. We gave it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Not many nursing homes that were this poor overall earned multiple category grades of this caliber. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that had a long list of deficiencies. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
The third area we looked at is short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. Short-term care grades are meaningful for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what effect this had on quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This place performed decently in this area, with 46.3 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
The last category we graded is nursing, which turned out to be a weak link for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D in nursing. There are a number of subcategories included in this grade. Many of the criteria relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
El Dorado Care & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This figure indicates the percent of long-term stay patients who have had a fall which resulted in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with poor nursing care. More frequent bathing can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who are showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were able to retain mobility. Some experts argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates 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 indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better