Hutchinson Regional Medical Center

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually perfect. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its top-shelf assessment, this facility also was given a strong short-term care score, with a score of A. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. We analyzed the levels of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In our last category, we gave this facility a A+ for its long-term care grade. This wrapped up a first-rate profile. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.