Louisburg Healthcare & Rehab Center

Louisburg Healthcare & Rehab Center is the sole option we found in Louisburg, Kansas. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack score. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. We were also pleased to discover that this facility received consistently decent grades in all of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

This facility's overall score was propped up by the fact that it has earned favorable inspections in recent years. We gave them a strong score in that category, with a B+. This is a much better score than the facility's overall score. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

This nursing home's third most favorable area was its long-term care score, where it was awarded a grade of B-. Long-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was not quite as favorable. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.46 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Our final area is short-term care, where we awarded this facility a B- in this category. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is considered to be a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed better than most facilities in this area with 49.8 percent of its patients returning home.