Shawnee Care Center

On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home also received an elite nursing rating. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. We weighed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its profile, this nursing home also received a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our short-term care scores are vital for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It does not appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in the area of inspections, with a grade of B in that category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in that category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. Long-term care grades are generally used to assess a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.53271 percent of its residents, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.