Salem Home

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Nursing Home

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Salem Home Description

Ranking

Ranking in City: 1 out of 2 communities in Hillsboro

Ranking in State: 138 out of 345 communities in KS

Information from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

This nursing community has been given an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid receiving 2 stars on its health inspection, 2 stars on its quality measures rating, and 5 stars on its staffing rating. Within the quality measure rating, each facility is given a short-stay rating and a long-stay rating. This facility received a 4-star short-stay rating and a 1-star long-stay rating. This nursing home is certified by Medicare and Medicaid and was first approved to provide Medicare and Medicaid services on 04/05/05 and is run by a non profit organization. It is a medium-sized nursing community with 45 nursing beds. Currently, there are 43 residents within the nursing community. Be advised these resident occupancy numbers are not always up to date and are collected from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services website periodically. The community is a continuing care retirement community which is a community where there are multiple levels of care at a single location. Typically these communities have 3-4 levels of care including independent living, assisted living, memory care, and nursing care.

Alerts from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

This facility has been given 3 fines by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for a total of $51,790.81. The facility has had 1 payment denials, which is when the government stops payments to a nursing home for new residents until the facility fixes an outstanding citation. The facility has also had 3 substantiated complaints reported in the last 3 years that resulted in a citation. The facility has had 5 facility incidents reported in the last 3 years that resulted in a citation.

Overall Ratings

Salem Home, a nursing facility, ranks within the top 50% for its overall rating, which slightly exceeds the state average, revealing a standard of care significant across myriad nursing homes. Despite this, the nursing home does have its shortcomings, positioned in the lower percentile for specific ratings. A slightly disconcerting consideration is its 2-star health inspection rating, a grade only a notch above the lowest possible and which positions it in the bottom 40% of comparable facilities. Further, this rating falls below the state's average. Similarly concerning is the 2-star quality rating, the second lowest achievable score, placing the nursing home among the bottom 20% in terms of facility-wide quality. This score is, disappointingly, below the state average.

Staff Ratings

Salem Home is a highly-rated nursing home, boasting a top-tier 5-star staff rating. Ranking in the top 10% of facilities, it provides a remarkable 3.08 nursing aid staffing hours per resident each day, significantly higher than the state's average of 2.53. However, with regards to LPN staffing hours, Salem Home finds itself in the lower 10%, contributing only 0.29 hours per resident per day, compared to the state's higher average of 0.66. In terms of RN staffing hours, Salem Home fares better, finding itself in the top 40% of facilities, providing 0.71 hours, although this is equal to the state's average of 0.71. Licensed staffing hours per resident per day at Salem Home is lower than the state average of 1.38, making it fall within the bottom 10% of facilities at 1.01 hours. Finally, physical therapist staffing hours at Salem Home is less than ideal as well, ranking in the bottom 20% of facilities with 0.01 hours, falling short of the state's average of 0.05.

Covid Data

The Salem Home nursing facility is distinguished in its commitment to vaccinating its residents and staff. Notably, this distinguished care home ranks in the top 40% of facilities when it comes to the rate of its residents who are up to date on their vaccinations. Specifically, Salem Home boasts a resident vaccination rate of 76.2%, significantly surpassing the state's average of 62.4%. It’s not only the residents who are keeping pace with their immunizations though, the staff at Salem Home also rank in the top 40% of facilities for vaccination uptake. Despite the modest difference, the Salem Home's staff vaccination rate of 22.5% is still notably higher than the state's average staff vaccination rate of 20.4%.

Quality Measures

The Salem Home is a nursing facility with only a 2-star quality measure rating, showing a considerable need for improvement. Despite the need for progress, it performs better than the state average in regards to the percentage of residents that have experienced one or more falls with severe injury, standing at 3.95% as opposed to the state's 4.88%, though it is still in the bottom 40% of facilities in this respect. However, there is greater concern in other areas, as the home is among the bottom 20% of facilities concerning the percent of residents with a catheter inserted and left in their bladder, with a proportion of 3.46% compared to the state's lower rate of 2.35%. Additionally, it falls into the same percentile regarding residents who lose too much weight, with an alarming 8.89% compared to the state's 5.68%. The Salem Home is also in the bottom half of facilities when it comes to residents who received an antipsychotic medication, although its percentage (14.49%) is less than the state average (18.52%). While it stands below the state average in residents' falls with severe injury, it is nevertheless among the bottom 40% of facilities in this category. These figures demonstrate substantial areas for the Salem Home to address to meet and exceed the standards for nursing home care.

Emergency and Hospitalization Quality Measures

Salem Home, a nursing facility, demonstrates a mixed standing regarding its hospitalization rate, outpatient emergency department visits, and rehospitalization of short-stay residents compared to state averages. Falling in the bottom 30% of facilities, Salem Home's hospitalizations per 1000 days is higher at 2.38, as opposed to the state's rate of 1.85. The facility's outpatient emergency department visits are also greater than the state's, with Salem Home at 2.02 per 1000 days, putting it in the lowest 20% of facilities. This is compared to the state's rate of 1.36. On the other hand, it ranks in the top 40% for the percentage of short-stay residents who had such visits, with a lesser figure of 9.4% compared to the state's 12.03%. However, Salem Home's percentage of short-stay residents who were rehospitalized after a nursing home admission is 30.9, notably higher than the state's 21.86%, putting it in the bottom 20% compared to other facilities.

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