Stanton County Health Care Facility Ltcu

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as discussed above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent nursing rating. We awarded them an A in this category. There are many criteria included in this area. Most of these factors are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 place Kansas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving patients even once per day.

This facility performed well in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our most dominant grades. Our short-term care scores are arguably most critical for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Next we looked at this nursing home's inspection rating This score is based on the facility's recent inspections. We gave it a C in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates that it avoided the more serious categories of deficiencies. We didn't consider anything on this facility's inspection report to be overly alarming.

Switching gears to the final area, this facility received a C in long-term care, which we consider to be a respectable grade. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility provided the vaccine to only 80 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.