Russell Regional Hospital Ltcu

Russell Regional Hospital Ltcu is a very-small hospital-based nursing home located in Russell, Kansas. Featuring an overall rating of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. You could definitely do much worse than this facility. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with a favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspection category. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this nursing home's other strengths is its first-rate long-term care grade. It received one of our more impressive scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 97.70115 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.42 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our more positive scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care scores are probably more critical for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. It does not appear that this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next category we scored is nursing. We gave this nursing home an acceptable grade in this category, with a grade of B-. While this wasn't on par with many of its other scores, it is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses spend with patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provides only 0 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below the national average. Finally, our nursing scores also consider some quality-focused metrics. We look at the percent of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these issues.