Mount St Mary

Mount St Mary is located in Wichita, Kansas, which is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the nation. This facility received a strong grade of B+ overall. We found it to be better than most of the facilities in Wichita, which has a city grade of B. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a good fit for most people. We also gave this nursing home strong grades in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report 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.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it was given an impressive short-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being its second best category score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is frequently a fair assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was given a score of B. It outpaced most nursing homes in this category. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we analyzed was nursing. In this category, we gave this facility a very solid grade of B. When calculating our nursing ratings, we look at both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.