Kingswood

Kingswood is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Kansas City, Missouri. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of A- which is a very strong overall score. This ended up being quite a bit better than the vast majority of the nursing homes in Kansas City. Even with Kansas City having 32 other nursing homes to select from, this facility managed to stand out as a fine selection. You should also take a look at this nursing home's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next section.

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 92.10526 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 3.34 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this area, this number may be skewed for some nursing homes due to some of the medical complexity of patients.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was strong in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Only a select group of nursing homes fared better in this category. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most critical for individuals requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It fared as well as just about any facility in Missouri in this area with 62.5 percent of its residents returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

The last area we assessed ended up being this facility's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- in nursing. We assessed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. With 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the vast majority of facilities. Lastly, we also factored some quality measures into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.