The Healthcare Resort of Wichita

The Healthcare Resort of Wichita is a small nursing home located in Wichita, Kansas. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded nursing homes we looked at. This facility received one of the most impressive ratings we offer. As a matter of fact, we ranked this facility as the eighth best facility in Wichita. We also gave this nursing home strong grades in all four of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. It doesn't look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its elite assessments in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On the whole this looks like a good option for long-term care.

This facility is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It performed better than most facilities in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This nursing home excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility supplied about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the typical facility. This is definitely a very favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In the final category we assessed, this facility received a very favorable grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home finished off a very impressive profile. Our nursing score is based on many data points. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This facility provides an incredible 7.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.