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Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center's website

1570 Sw Westport Drive,
Topeka KS 66604

(785) 271-6700

80.46% estimated occupancy 1

Note: Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.

Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center is located in Topeka, Kansas. The city offers a variety of available nursing homes. Our scoring scheme was not kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall grade of F. At the end of the day, you'd be better off to steer clear of this facility. Finally, we were surprised to learn that this place received a decent score in our nursing category. You can find more information about this category below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Partnership
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Optometry
  • Colostomy Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Nurse Quality

Grade: C

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. Short-term care grades are typically employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. With its weak grade in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this place provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Sadly, this facility's next highest category was long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this area, it still performed somewhat badly. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated just 76.94175 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Facility Inspections

Grade: D

In the final category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. Inspection grades are based on a facility's recent government inspections. We gave this facility a D in this category, which is a very poor grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. We would scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed one deficiency by CMS. Fortunately, it wasn't in a category that suggests that it posed a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 4.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 2.91% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Major falls leading to injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 1.02% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 16.27% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 25.28% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-minus

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 5.26% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 83.36% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 17.95% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and eating. Some believe that this is a measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 25.89% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 25.89% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 13.42% of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Plaza West Healthcare & Rehab Center, 77.89% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.

Scores for Topeka, KS

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus

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Nearby Hospitals

  • Stormont Vail HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.57 miles away1500 Sw 10th Avenue Topeka Kansas 66604Voluntary non-profit - Private(785) 354-6121
  • University of Kansas Hlth System St Francis CampusAcute Care Hospitals 3.62 miles away1700 Sw 7th Street Topeka Kansas 66606Voluntary non-profit - Church(785) 295-8000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Dialysis Specialists of Topeka, Inc.1.9 miles away3931 Gage Center Drive Topeka Kansas 66604Dialysis Stations: 12 (785) 228-8978
  • Davita Wanamaker Dialysis2.75 miles away3711 Sw Wanamaker Road Topeka Kansas 66610Dialysis Stations: 24 (785) 273-1824
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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=175255