Prairie Estates Care Center

On top of receiving a great overall rating, this facility also earned an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a nursing home. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given a high-end short-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being this facility's second most impressive category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The third category we assessed was long-term care. Contributing to its first-rate resume, this nursing home also performed well in this area. In fact, we awarded it a of A- for the area. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 64.28571 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next area we assessed is nursing. We awarded this facility one of our better grades in this category, with a grade of B. While this wasn't on par with many of this facility's other scores, it is nevertheless a fine score. The nursing rating is based on a handful of factors, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.