Wichita County Health Center Ltcu

In addition to performing well in its overall score, this nursing home received an excellent long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that area with an A. Our inspection scores are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The third area we assessed is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded an impressive short-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care scores are arguably more meaningful for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next category we looked at is nursing. This facility received an impressive nursing rating this year, with a grade of B. Even though this was not quite as impressive as a few of its other category grades, this is still one of our stronger grades for this category. There are a number of factors included in this grade. Most of these data points are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.