Mitchell County Hospital Health Systems Ltcu

Mitchell County Hospital Health Systems Ltcu is in Beloit, Kansas, a city with 4,721 people. We gave this nursing home an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. In addition, this is a hospital-based nursing home, which is a positive for prospective residents with medical conditions frequently requiring hospitalization. This facility was also given phenomenal grades in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this place a grade of A+ for our inspection category. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many dominant scores, this facility received a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in this area. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to offering very impressive levels of nurse staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.65625 percent of its residents. This statistic is also significantly higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.89 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility is just about middle of the road in this area.

The next category we assessed is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a very positive short-term care grade, with a B+ in the category. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next category we graded was nursing. In this area, we gave this nursing home a strong grade of B. When determining our nursing grades, we look at both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.