Phillips County Retirement Center

Phillips County Retirement Center is a senior living facility located in Phillipsburg, Kansas. This city has a population of 3,483 people. It looks like this nursing home is among the highest-rated nursing homes we found. It received one of the highest scores we offer. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top quarter of all nursing homes in the United States. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its long-term care rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 97.35099 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. Our inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some 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 inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. In computing our nursing scores, we look at both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than what is offered by most facilities. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

The last area we rated was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B-. This ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. Our short-term care grades are likely most meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.