Azria Health Wichita

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for our nursing rating. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to another one of this place's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections proved to be one of its best categories. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Our inspection grades are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more information about this nursing home. Without having deficiency data, it was difficult to evaluate the place in this category.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we gave them one of our better scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B. In forming these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 4.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next area we graded was long-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that area. Of course, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinates 98.97436 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.