Parsons PMMA on U.S. News and World Report Best Nursing 2019 Home list
Parsons Presbyterian Manor is on the U.S. News and World Report Best Nursing Homes 2019 short-term rehabilitation list. The senior living community received the highest score of High Performing to make the list, available here.
The U.S. News and World Report list uses information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the government agency that sets and enforces standards for nursing homes. CMS assigns one to five stars to each community for how well it performs in health inspections, nurse staffing and level of quality care.
U.S. News now uses the CMS star rating for staffing rather than the overall star rating to determine which communities are given the High Performing designation. This decision reflects expert opinion on the importance of staffing in quality of care, as well as the availability since April 2018 of more accurate data on nurse staffing levels in each community or center.
New in 2018 was a Short-Stay Rehabilitation rating evaluating the care delivered to patients after a hospitalization for surgery, heart attack, stroke or similar condition. To be eligible for a short-stay rating, a center's performance on at least one outcome measure and data on either physical therapy time or RN and total nurse staffing must have been available from CMS. Outcome measures included the percentages of short-stay patients who were rehospitalized within 30 days, had an emergency room visit within 30 days and were successfully discharged to their home or community.
“Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America employees continue to focus their efforts on delivering quality caring every day,” said PMMA President and CEO Bruce Shogren. “The High Performing designation confirms their good work.”
This is Parsons’ first appearance on the short-term rehab list. The community has previously appeared on the best long-term care list five times since 2011.
In addition to Parsons Presbyterian Manor, four other PMMA locations are on the short-term rehab honoree list with high performing ratings: Manor of the Plains (Dodge City), Topeka and Wichita in Kansas and Aberdeen Heights (Kirkwood) in Missouri, placing them among the top 2,250 short-term rehabilitation communities in the country according to U.S. News.
All Medicare- and Medicaid-certified health care centers were evaluated by U.S. News. To be eligible for an overall rating, a center must have received reimbursement from CMS in July 2019 and had sufficient data to evaluate quality in that rating.
To learn more about the U.S. News and World Report rating system, visit : their FAQ page.
