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Benchmarking Diversicare of Sedgwick in Sedgwick, KS against all nursing homes

 

Diversicare of Sedgwick in Sedgwick, KS has the 2nd-fewest short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit (2.5%) among the 73 nursing homes within 50 miles. That 2.5% compares to an average of 10.7% across those 73 nursing homes.

Diversicare of Sedgwick has these related standings among those 73 nursing homes:

  • short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit = 2.5% (2nd-fewest)

  • short-stay residents who were rehospitalized after a nursing home admission = 13.1% (8th-fewest)

  • short-stay residents who were rehospitalized or had an outpatient emergency department visit = 15.6% (4th-fewest)

  • hospitalizations per 1,000 long-stay resident days = 2.21 (6th-most, tied)

  • outpatient emergency department visits per 1,000 long-stay resident days = 0.87 (22nd-most)

  • incentive bonus payments per $1M in claims = $779 (16th-lowest)


Note that short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit tends to fall together with outpatient emergency department visits per 1,000 long-stay resident days. But on the latter, Diversicare of Sedgwick in Sedgwick, KS (with 0.87) is higher (i.e., worse) than the median (0.82) of those 73 nursing homes.

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Meridian Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Wichita, KS is first with 1.9%.

Incidentally, both are owned by a for-profit corporation and had a deficiency in how to ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. Neither is a continuing-care retirement community. Neither has a Family Council.

beat Legacy at College Hill in Wichita, KS (3.1%), Good Samaritan Society - Hutchinson Village in Hutchinson, KS (4.0%), Rolling Hills Health and Rehab in Wichita, KS (4.1%), and Diversicare of Haysville in Haysville, KS (4.6%), and others, ending with Bethany Home Association in Lindsborg, KS (25.7%).

31 out of the other 72 nursing homes were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit, e.g., Cheney Golden Age Home in Cheney, KS.

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References

  1. short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit. Lower values are better. The percent of short-stay residents who entered or reentered the facility from a hospital, visited an emergency department within 30 days of the start of the stay, and this visit did not result in an inpatient or observation stay. The value is the risk-adjusted value for the quality measure. Refer to Nursing Home Compare Claims-Based Quality Measure Technical Specifications. To qualify for short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit, the number of residents in certified beds must be at least 40. Except where noted, all data come from the Nov 6, 2020 update at Nursing Home Compare and all changes-over-time are over two years, comparing to the Nov 1, 2018 update.
  2. within 50 miles.

    • The Latitude and Longitude data used by this application were obtained from the Google Map's geolocation API.
    • In some cases, the actual street-level addresses were not found anywhere, especially when only PO Boxes were provided, so in those cases, zip code coordinates were used. And because the average land area of a zip code is around 90 square miles, it is possible that some locations may be misrepresented.

    Except where noted, all data come from the Nov 6, 2020 update at Nursing Home Compare and all changes-over-time are over two years, comparing to the Nov 1, 2018 update.