The Nicol Home

Located in Glasco, Kansas, The Nicol Home is the only facility we identified in the city. With an overall rating of D, this is a well below average facility. This facility has very little working in its favor. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its strong inspection reports. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category grades

Although we didn't give this facility a good overall score, we actually gave it a relatively strong grade in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

The next best area we gave this nursing home in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.09091 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was not quite as favorable than its other scores in this category.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. In determining our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. Quantity of nursing care is apparently not the problem here with this nursing home's grade. This nursing home actually provides an above average 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident each day. While it fared well in terms of nursing hours, this facility received poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in both datapoints.

Turning to the fourth category, this facility did not perform very well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With its score in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 21.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.