The Healthcare Resort of Olathe

The Healthcare Resort of Olathe is located in Olathe, Kansas. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack score. Based on our analysis, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this facility's report card was its remarkable inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor dings aren't something to panic about.

This facility also received an impressive short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more meaningful for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Kansas in this area with 60.8 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

We also gave this nursing home a solid grade in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Our long-term care grade is generally used to grade a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. In addition to offering very solid levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 97.16312 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.65 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Turning to our next category, we awarded this facility a D for nursing. This is the facility's worst category rating. Of course, this category hurt the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. Our nursing score is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. In this facility's case, quantity of care does not appear to be the problem. According to its staffing data, this facility provided an average of 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was above the national average. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this facility didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was above the national average in both statistics.