Johnson County Health and Rehab

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home also earned nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that area with an A+. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few facilities to be given several A+ category scores. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this place 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 a remarkably low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This place averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It scored well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the number of hours of care offered.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care, where this nursing home received a C. While this ended up being its poorest category rating, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. Our short-term care grade is often employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.