Kindred Hospital - Las Vegas (Flamingo) - Snf/Dp

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most meaningful for folks in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is primarily based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this facility also received excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that area, with a grade of A-. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

The next category we scored is long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of B-. This turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. This is nevertheless not the end of the world. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.