Southwest Medical Center Snf

In addition to receiving an elite overall grade, this facility also received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can offer a facility. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional reason we assessed this nursing home so favorably is that it was given an A+ short-term care score. This is simply as dominant as it gets in this area. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. The nursing grade is based on several subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Kansas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a patient more often.

In our last area, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our long-term care score. This completed an elite report card. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.