Minneola District Hospital Ltcu

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 93.965515 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility has received near flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. The nursing rating assesses several components, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Kansas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident more often.

The last category we looked at was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B+. This topped off an elite report card. Only a select few nursing homes earned a B+ or higher in every category. Our short-term care grade is typically used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, 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 patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.