Oswego Health and Rehab is a senior living facility in Oswego, Kansas. This city has 2,834 people. This is a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. Based on all of the relevant data, you could do much worse than this nursing home. This place is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Oswego Health and Rehab
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Dialysis Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Nurse Quality
Building on its impressive profile, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing. In fact, we gave it an B+ for that category. The nursing score considers many subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 79.207924 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
Our last category is short-term care, where we gave this facility a C in that category. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Oswego Health and Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 0% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are suffering from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are an measure of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 0.99% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are routinely associated with lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 7.61% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of long-term stay patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 18.67% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for treating a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 36.59% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term care patients who are given antianxiety drugs. These medications are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 6.25% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Many would argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 89.6% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 8.54% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 12.75% of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 12.75% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 15.03% of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Oswego Health and Rehab, 70.99% of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Oswego Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.12 miles away800 Barker Drive Oswego Kansas 67356Proprietary(620) 795-2921
- Sedan City HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 1.01 miles away300 North Street Sedan Kansas 67361Government - Local(620) 725-3115
- Labette HealthAcute Care Hospitals 14.06 miles away1902 South Us Hwy 59 Parsons Kansas 67357Government - Local(620) 421-4880
- Mercy Hospital ColumbusCritical Access Hospitals 14.86 miles away220 N Pennsylvania Avenue Columbus Kansas 66725Voluntary non-profit - Church(620) 429-2545
Nearby Dialysis
- Parsons Dialysis Center13.94 miles away1902 S Hwy 59, Bldg B Parsons Kansas 67357Dialysis Stations: 12 (620) 421-1081