Prairie Estates

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this place really excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in that area. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's quality category scores came in the area of long-term care. We awarded them one of our stronger grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.38144 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B in this area. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next area we assessed was nursing. We gave this nursing home a grade of D for nursing, rendering this its weakest grade. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place was above average in two of the major data points we focus on, with solid scores for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.