The Healthcare Resort of Wichita

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received a very impressive grade in inspections. Inspections ended up being its best category. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. It does not appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 94.82758 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. Adding to its high-end profile, this nursing home also excelled in this category. In fact, it received a grade of of A for the area. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we rated was nursing. In that area, we awarded this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This was this facility's worst area. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is far below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care offered.