Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente is located in Kansas City, Missouri, which is among the most densely populated cities in the country. This facility was given an elite overall grade of A-, making it among the ten highest rated nursing homes in Kansas City. You simply can't do any better than this facility. Keep reading to find this nursing home's category scores, which are also impressive. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care rating. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our stronger scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.68852 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, it appears this nursing home has received quality government inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a B in this category. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 9.32% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 3.98% of Patients had Serious Falls
This measures the percent of long-term care residents that experienced falls which caused severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 3.42% of Patients had UTIs
This gauges the percent of long-term patients who have sustained UTI's. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 20.31% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 24.54% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 4.11% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 88.89% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 14.76% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 15.81% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 1.64 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 15.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 11.79 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Tiffany Springs Rehabilitation & Health Care Cente, 72.5% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Kansas City, MO
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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