Medicalodges Coffeyville

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its impressive achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its short-term care score. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Moving on our next area, this facility was awarded an excellent long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in that category. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 91.46342 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a bit less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next area we rated is nursing. We gave this nursing home one of our better scores in that category, with a B. Even though this is not on par with several of its other scores, it is nevertheless a perfectly acceptable grade. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident more often.