Frankfort Rehabilitation and Care
117 Old Soldiers Lane, Frankfort KY 40601 · (502) 875-7272 · 70.8% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Frankfort, Kentucky, Frankfort Rehabilitation and Care is one of a mere two nursing homes in this city. This nursing home was given an overall score of F. Based on our assessment, you would be better off to steer clear of this facility. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Although this place's overall score was as bad as it gets, it didn't perform terribly in the area of short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which isn't bad. That said, this wasn't enough to save its overall profile. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. This nursing home elevated its score in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its patients than the average place. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. It performed respectably with 48.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an C. Few facilities fared better in this category. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.
Long-term Care Quality
We were also surprised to discover that this facility received a somewhat respectable long-term care grade this year. We gave it a C in this category. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.62825 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.83 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic can be skewed for some facilities based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Facility Inspections
Turning our last category of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. For places with bad inspection grades, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently of over $100,000. This often signifies that a facility's bad performance has been an issue for several years.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Frankfort Rehabilitation and Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is 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 indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better