Wellsville Manor

In addition to earning a quality overall grade, this facility also earned excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our highest grades in that category, with an A. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its first-rate performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for our short-term care rating. In determining these short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Kansas in this area with 64.4 percent of its patients returning home.

The third area we analyzed is long-term care. Adding to its dominant resume, this facility also excelled in this area. In fact, we awarded it a of A for that category. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.29412 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.47 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

The next area we analyzed was nursing. In this area, we gave this facility a favorable grade of B. Nursing ratings are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. With 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls which lead to serious injury, this facility performed better than the national average.