Highland Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center

C
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402 S Avenue, Highland KS 66035 · (785) 442-3217 · 69.77% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese

Highland Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Highland, Kansas. This city has a population of 1,311 people. Sporting an overall grade of C, this is a decent facility. This facility has some things working in its favor. This nursing home didn't excel in all of our categories, but it did not receive any terrible grades either. More information about these categories can be found below.

Additional Details:

Accepts Medicare 1 : TrueA checkmark indicating true.

Accepts Medicaid 1 : 44 Beds TrueA checkmark indicating true.

CCRC : FalseUsed to indicate false.

For profit - Corporation

Resident Council: FalseUsed to indicate false.

Family Council: FalseUsed to indicate false.

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)

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Medical Staff
Therapy Staff

Facility Inspections

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Historical

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A-. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Long-term Care Quality

B+
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Historical

Additionally, we also would like to note that this facility was given positive long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our better grades in this area, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the facility's second best score. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Short-term Care Quality

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Historical

This facility's second least favorable score was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is more often than not a reliable assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Given its grade in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this place is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 41.3 percent of its patients returning home.

Nurse Quality

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The last category we analyzed was nursing, which ended up being a weak spot for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for nursing. We looked at the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in determining our grade in this category. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.

Overall Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Aug 20
Provider:
C
State:
B
National:
B
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Overall Rating
Nurse Rating
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Inspection Rating

Highland Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Provider
C
9.23%
State
B+
6.22%
National
B
7.33%

Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better

Minimizes Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.

Provider
F
10.58%
State
B-
4.8%
National
B
3.36%

Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.

Provider
A-
0.96%
State
B-
3.78%
National
B
2.65%

Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Provider
F
40.43%
State
B
15.84%
National
B
14.18%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.

Provider
B+
16.25%
State
B
21.37%
National
B
19.67%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Managing Depression Among Residents

This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.

Provider
B-
4%
State
B-
5.44%
National
B+
5.09%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.

Provider
B-
96.15%
State
B
91.06%
National
B
92.04%

Percent of Patients
Higher is Better

Residents Maintain Autonomy

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.

Provider
C
18.75%
State
B
15.8%
National
B
14.47%

Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.

Provider
A-
20.88%
State
B
18.04%
National
B
17.09%

Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better

Hospitalizations

This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.

Provider
A+
0.73
State
B-
1.94
National
B
1.70

Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.

Provider
C
20.88
State
B
18.04
National
B
17.09

Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better

Nearby Hospitals

Hiawatha Community Hospital 13.82 mi
300 Utah Street Hiawatha Kansas 66434
(785) 742-2131
Critical Access Hospitals
Voluntary non-profit - Private

Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=175412
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