Shawnee Gardens Healthcare & Rehab Center
6416 Long Street, Shawnee KS 66216 · (913) 631-2146 · 92.46% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Shawnee Gardens Healthcare & Rehab Center is one of four available facilities located in Shawnee, Kansas. This is a lower end nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Based on our assessment, we would be very reluctant to recommend this facility. Nevertheless, this facility did just fine in our inspections category, which you can read more about below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 130 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
As it turns out, this nursing home only received a D for its long-term care grade, which ended up being one of its more favorable category grades. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care may not provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to just 90.61785 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.44 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also a cause for concern.
Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not an impressive grade. In forming our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Considering its grade in this area, we were not stunned to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 41.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Nurse Quality
The next area we assessed was nursing. This nursing home was given a poor grade of F in this category. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averaged just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This place also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this metric.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Shawnee Gardens Healthcare & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents which developed pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for treating a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of patients who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better