Sterling Presbyterian Manor

Sterling Presbyterian Manor is located in Sterling, Kansas. The city has 3,095 people. Sporting an overall score of A, this facility is one of the most impressive nursing homes we assessed. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top fifth of all facilities in the country. Lastly, this nursing home's ownership changed in the last year, so we will need to monitor it to confirm it maintains its high level of care.

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also fared well in our long-term care category, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Although we determined this nursing home had an impressive volume of nursing care provided by nurses and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be somewhat slightly lower than we anticipated. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 71.57895 percent of its residents. This is one statistic we'd love to see this nursing home improve. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 1.96 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place provides an incredible 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this place performed as well as any nursing home the nation. Preventing serious falls is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are employed.

Moving on to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final category we graded, this nursing home was awarded an impressive grade grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility finished off a straight A report card. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is often a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. It fared as well as just about any nursing home in Kansas in this area with 56.4 percent of its patients returning home.