Mount Hope Nursing Center

Mount Hope Nursing Center is a small non-profit nursing home located in Mount Hope, Kansas. With an overall rating of D, this is a subpar nursing home. 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 Mount Hope. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive nursing grade. You can continue reading to learn more about nursing and other category scores

While we didn't give this facility a good overall grade, we actually gave it a strong grade in the area of nursing, where it earned a B+. This is better than most facilities in this category. The nursing rating assesses many components, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was above the national average. Finally, this place also performed above average in several of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided with better nursing care.

This facilities next most favorable area is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this area. Our short-term care grades are crucial for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The more important thing is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 41.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next highest area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.94 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we assessed is inspections. The nursing home received a C in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. Unfortunately, this nursing home was hit with a category L deficiency, which is not what we expected based on its inspection grade. This category means CMS uncovered a widespread deficiency placing patient safety or health in immediate jeopardy. In fact, it may even be worth doing more research into this deficiency and steps taken by the nursing home to prevent similar episodes in the future.