Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center is a senior living facility located in Eskridge, Kansas, which has 985 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of D based on the data we looked at. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Eskridge. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.
Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we did not rate this place favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively solid health inspections in recent years. We gave it a B+ in this category, which is much better than its overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
One of this nursing home's better category grades was in the category of long-term care. This proved to be its second most respectable category. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Long-term care grades are often used to judge a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 92.608696 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this place keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Sadly, this nursing home's next best category is short-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. With a score in this range for this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our final area, this facility did not perform well in this area either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is really as bad as it gets. When determining our nursing grades, we look at both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 7.05% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percent of long-term care residents that have new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 5.14% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 3.56% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely caused by facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better nursing care reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 17.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs may be used for treating a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 22.38% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 5.98% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 91.04% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 16.84% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 19.61% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Eskridge Care & Rehabilitation Center, 19.61 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.