Advena Living of Clay Center

On top of earning a strong overall score, this facility fared even better in our inspections category which is associated with the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not 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 facility fared well in the area of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our most favorable scores. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 79.207924 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facilities next most favorable category is short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is typically a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

The next area we assessed is nursing. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also factored some quality measures into our nursing scores. This nursing home was subpar in a few of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally indicators of the quality of nursing care available.