Prairie Ridge Care & Rehabilit

On top of receiving a great overall rating, this facility fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our best grades. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home was awarded a favorable short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category with a score of B. Our short-term care grades are vital for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities 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. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home's worst category is long-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 82.38994 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a few points below average. To our surprise, this place 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 is its best score in this category.