Morton County Senior Living Community
400 Buckmaster Drive, Elkhart KS 67950 · (620) 697-2728 · 66.73% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Morton County Senior Living Community is a small nursing home located in Elkhart, Kansas. It looks like this facility is a subpar nursing home. A grade in this range indicates we found some red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Elkhart. The best thing we can say about this nursing home is that it didn't receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. More information about its category grades is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 52 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. This score is more respectable than this place's overall score. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home offers 3.8 hours of nursing care per patient daily, of which more than an hour of those were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We add more weight to these skilled nursing hours in determining our nursing grades. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility was awarded its third most favorable category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is an acceptable score. In our short-term care grade, we strive to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 40.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we rated was long-term care, which is a weak link for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a grade of just D in our long-term care category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated just 52.60116 percent of its patients against pneumonia. We were stunned with its hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 3.75 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is more than twice the national average. This is definitely a concerning statistic.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Morton County Senior Living Community Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better