Prairie Oasis

In addition to receiving a poor overall score, we also gave this nursing home poor scores across the board in our category grades. It received just a D for its nursing grade, which was its best category. Our nursing grade is based on a handful of datapoints, however, the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these datapoints to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, this nursing home received really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F in our inspection category. An F in this category is usually a signal that we found some red flags on its government inspection reports. For nursing homes that received this poor of an inspection rating, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we would like to point out that this nursing home received large government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This usually indicates that a nursing home'spoor performance spanned several years.

This facility ended up receiving a a very poor grade in our long-term care area. It received an F in this category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 85.53055 percent of its residents. This is multiple points below average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

The last area we graded was short-term care, where this nursing home was given a rock bottom score in this category as well. It received a lowly F in this area, which is definitely a major concern. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is more often than not a useful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Given its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.