Kiowa Hospital District Manor

To pair with a favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspection category. Inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It does not look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without having the information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it was a challenge to really grade it in this category.

Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it was awarded an above average long-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.52941 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing grade analyzes a handful of datapoints, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.

The final category we looked at was short-term care. We gave this nursing home one of our better scores in this category, with a grade of B. This facility ended up being very solid in all areas we analyzed. With our short-term care score, we attempt to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.