Great Bend Health & Rehab Center

With an address in Great Bend, Kansas, Great Bend Health & Rehab Center is one of a mere two available facilities in this city. Featuring an overall score of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. Based on our assessment, you'd be better off to avoid of this facility. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our long-term care rating. In computing our long-term care ratings, we look at the assistance with daily living offered to a facility's patients. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.54601 percent of its patients, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was not quite as favorable. Here we found that this place had 2.28 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Interestingly, this facility's awful overall score can't really be attributed to its government inspection reports. We gave it a grade of C for our inspections category. Inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in category J, K or L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to place patient health or safety in imminent harm or jeopardy. Finally, they also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is certainly not a great sign.

We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Nursing grades are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This facility provided just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The final area we assessed is short-term care, where this facility received a rock bottom score in this category as well. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously very concerning. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Considering its score in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this place was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 26 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.