The Healthcare Resort Leawood - Iron Horse Hlth
5401 W 143rd Street, Overland Park KS 66224 · (913) 249-3600 · 86.42% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
The Healthcare Resort Leawood - Iron Horse Hlth is in Overland Park, Kansas, a city with 169,942 people. With an overall grade of B+. After looking at the other options in Overland Park, this appears to be a better selection than many of them. In spite of Overland Park having 12 nursing homes available, this nursing home managed to stand out as a great selection. This place was stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of our major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 70 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an A. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 66 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.
Nurse Quality
Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing grade weighs a number of factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides high levels of nursing care, with an average of 3.9 hours per patient daily. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Finally, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. For example, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed is long-term care, in which this facility received a B-. Even though this proved to be its worst category score, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 92.07317 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a few points below what we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was also below average. Here we found that this facility had 2.56 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this number may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Healthcare Resort Leawood - Iron Horse Hlth Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents who were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better