Moundridge Manor

Moundridge Manor is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Moundridge, 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. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top 20 percent of all facilities in the United States. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's exemplary profile is its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given an A+ for its long-term care score. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of offering very favorable levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing rating assesses a handful of factors, however, the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we looked at was short-term care, where this facility was given a grade of C. This actually is this nursing home's weakest category. This is nevertheless not a major area of concern. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 14.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.