Victoria Falls

The main thing propping up this nursing home's profile is its elite nursing score. In fact, we awarded this nursing home an A in that category. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Kansas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category scores was in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B+. Our short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a decent inspection grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home had 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories G through L. This indicates CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We really did not find anything on this facility's inspection reports to be overly alarming.

The last category we analyzed is long-term care. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is a very poor grade. This is clearly a major concern. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities offer. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to only 57.714287 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.