Sanders Ridge Health Campus is a facility in Mount Washington, Kentucky, which has a population of 19,345 people. This proved to be an A rated facility. This nursing home was given one of the best grades that we offer. A grade of this caliber requires first-rate scores across the board. Based on all of the relevant data, you can not go wrong here. Headlining this place's stellar report card is its inspection score, which we will address in the next section.
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Sanders Ridge Health Campus
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
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Facility Inspections
In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also received A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was awarded a first-rate short-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category score. In that category, this facility received a grade of A. Our short-term care grade is typically used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. When determining our nursing ratings, we look at both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
In the last area, this nursing home also received an excellent long-term care score, with a grade of A-. This completed a rare straight A profile. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sanders Ridge Health Campus Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 7.2% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 0.68% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are often linked to lower quality nursing care. More supervision limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 9.93% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 37.4% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 32.64% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 100% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 14.41% of Patients
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate the deterioration of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 17.26% of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Some believe that mobility is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 17.26% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 11.56% of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Sanders Ridge Health Campus, 71.61% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements.