AdventHealth Care Center Overland Park

This nursing home excelled in our short-term care rating, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. In crafting our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

The last category we graded is long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. Unfortunately, this category hurt the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. Nursing homes that do not score well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 81.25 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be significantly less than the national average. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.