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Wheatridge Park Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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1501 S Holly Dr,
Liberal KS 67901

(620) 624-0130

92.66% estimated occupancy ¹

Wheatridge Park Care Center is a small nursing home located in Liberal, Kansas. Sporting an overall rating of D, this is a lower end nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Liberal. The city has just two other nursing homes. Nevertheless, this facility did just fine in our inspections category, which you can find more information about below.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

While we were fairly low on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We wish we had more data for this facility. Without having the deficiency data, it was challenging to grade this facility in this category.

Long-term Care Quality

Turning to the category of long-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in that category. Unfortunately, this wound up being one of its best areas. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 95.62044 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

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Nurse Quality

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This place offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Short-term Care Quality

The last area we looked at is short-term care, which was this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this area. Our short-term care grade is often employed to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. With a grade this poor in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in many staffing figures we looked at. It provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Wheatridge Park Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 12% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 13.14% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of residents who have had a fall leading to severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 0.86% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who sustained a UTI. UTI's could be an indicator of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this statistic may be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 17.7% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 14.5% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure tells you the percent of long-term residents which are administered antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 17.32% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay patients demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 95.21% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 13.85% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 10.49% of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay residents that were able to retain mobility. Many would argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients health.

Hospitalizations

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 10.49% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Wheatridge Park Care Center, 19.04% of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of rehabilitation.