Wichita Presbyterian Manor

Wichita Presbyterian Manor is in Wichita, Kansas. This city is among the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the nation with has 409,656 people. We awarded this facility world class overall score of A+. In fact, it proved to be ranked among the five highest graded nursing homes in the city. Wichita features a slew of nursing homes, but it is doubtful you will need to check out too many others. This one looks like a first-rate option. Scroll down to see this nursing home's category ratings, which are equally impressive. You just can't do any better than a straight A report card.

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly flawless. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This place provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We were really impressed by these statistics. On top of providing high levels of care, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place outpaced the national average.

This nursing home also was awarded a dominant short-term care score. This actually ended up being this facility's third most impressive category score. In that category, this facility received a score of A. Short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. When we assessed this nursing home's nursing hours, we found it provided quite a bit more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. It fared better than most facilities in the country in this area with 55.2 percent of its residents returning home.

Moving on to our next area, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category. We awarded it an A- in that category. This finalized a straight A profile. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of providing well above average levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 97.05882 percent of its residents. This statistic is also significantly better than most nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.88 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.