SOUTH LINCOLN NURSING CENTER (KEMMERER, WY) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Fewer than 100
Survey Response Rate: 44%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	2%
Wyoming:	4%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	13%
Wyoming:	18%

Always

Here:	85%
State:	78%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	2%
Wyoming:	4%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	8%
State:	16%

Always

Here:	90%
Wyoming:	80%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	1%
State:	7%

Usually

Here:	21%
State:	22%

Always

Here:	78%
State:	71%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	5%
Wyoming:	7%

Usually

Here:	18%
Wyoming:	24%

Always

This Nursing Home:	77%
State:	69%

How often did staff explain about medicines before giving them to patients?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	18%
Wyoming:	17%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	14%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	68%
State:	64%

How often were the patients' rooms and bathrooms kept clean?

Sometimes or never

Here:	1%
State:	8%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	9%
State:	19%

Always

This Nursing Home:	90%
Wyoming:	73%

How often was the area around patients' rooms kept quiet at night?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	1%
Wyoming:	8%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	26%
State:	32%

Always

This Nursing Home:	73%
Wyoming:	60%

Were patients given information about what to do during their recovery at home?

Yes

This Nursing Home:	95%
Wyoming:	86%

This Nursing Home:	5%
Wyoming:	14%

How do patients rate the hospital overall on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)?

6 or lower

This Nursing Home:	9%
Wyoming:	9%

7 or 8

Here:	12%
State:	26%

9 or 10

This Nursing Home:	79%
Wyoming:	65%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	8%
Wyoming:	5%

Yes, probably

This Nursing Home:	22%
State:	28%

Yes, definitely

This Nursing Home:	70%
State:	67%

Complaint Deficiency

Approved construction type or materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly located and lighted Exit signs
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Portable fire extinguishers
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly protected cooking facilities
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Allow residents to easily view the results of the nursing home's most recent survey
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Develop policies that prevent mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of residents or theft of resident property
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Provide care for residents in a way that keeps or builds each resident's dignity and respect of individuality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Maintain 15 months of resident assessments in the resident's active clinical record
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Put firmly secured handrails on each side of hallways
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Approved construction type or materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly protected cooking facilities
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Restrictions on the use of flammable curtains
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly sized and located linen or trash receptacles
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Keep each resident's personal and medical records private and confidential
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Allow the resident the right to participate in the planning or revision of the resident's care plan
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Post nurse staffing information/data on a daily basis
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Make sure that doctors visit residents regularly, as required
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Have enough outside ventilation via a window or mechanical ventilation, or both
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Walls or barriers that prevent smoke from passing through and would resist fire for at least one hour
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Weekly inspections and monthly testing of generators
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Keep each resident's personal and medical records private and confidential
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide care for residents in a way that keeps or builds each resident's dignity and respect of individuality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide activities to meet the interests and needs of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure each resident receives an accurate assessment by a qualified health professional
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Allow the resident the right to participate in the planning or revision of the resident's care plan
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Assist those residents who need total help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Give or get quality lab services/tests in a timely manner to meet the needs of residents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies quarterly, and develop corrective plans of action
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatients who had a follow-up mammogram or ultrasound within 45 days after a screening mammogram.

Here:	4.400%
State:	9.239%

Process of Care

Pneumonia

Percent of Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
Wyoming:	97.7%

Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
Wyoming:	94.5%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	91.0%
State:	95.4%

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	1.550
Wyoming:	0.945

Number of Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.240
State:	0.485

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	1.780
State:	1.429

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.010
Wyoming:	0.082

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.010
State:	0.095

SOUTH LINCOLN NURSING CENTER - KEMMERER, WY

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Complaint Deficiency

Use of Medical Imaging

Process of Care

Pneumonia

Staff Information

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