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Sunporch Dodge City

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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501 W Beeson Road,
Dodge City KS 67801

(620) 227-7512

82.22% estimated occupancy ¹

Located in Dodge City, Kansas, Sunporch Dodge City is one of four nursing homes in this city. This nursing home was given an overall grade of B, which is a good grade. Based on our ratings, you can do much worse than this nursing home. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Palliative Care
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling

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Facility Inspections

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 65.38461 percent of its patients. This is a few points below what we anticipated. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Nurse Quality

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.

Short-term Care Quality

The next category we scored is short-term care. This nursing home was given a grade of B- for this area. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

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Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Sunporch Dodge City Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Sunporch Dodge City, 12.5% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Sunporch Dodge City, 7.69% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of patients who sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Sunporch Dodge City, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indication of worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic can also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Sunporch Dodge City, 26.92% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more patients suffering from cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Sunporch Dodge City, 17.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Sunporch Dodge City, 7.48% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care patients demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Sunporch Dodge City, 78.09% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Sunporch Dodge City, 18.33% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Sunporch Dodge City, 17.22% of Residents

Measures the percent of long-term residents that retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

In Sunporch Dodge City, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Sunporch Dodge City, 17.22% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Sunporch Dodge City, 25.49% of Patients

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Sunporch Dodge City, 73.04% of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.