Montgomery Place Nursing Center

Montgomery Place Nursing Center is a small nursing home located in Independence, Kansas. This nursing home turns out to be an A rated facility. This facility was given one of the best scores that we offer. A grade in this range requires superb marks across the board. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top 25 percent of all facilities in the nation. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received an A. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. 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. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This place outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 71.6 percent of its patients returning home.

To add to its first-rate accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of providing elite levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.83721 percent of its residents. This figure is also much better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies 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.

Switching gears to the final area, this nursing home was given an acceptable nursing rating. While this is not as good as a few of its other grades, this is truly not a major area of concern. Our nursing rating analyzes quite a few components, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This place boasts a really impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant portion were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any nursing home in the Independence area. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing ratings. This place fared poorly in two of the metrics we considered, with below average figures for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.