Staffing at Karcher Post Acute
Hours of nursing care each resident receives per day, from payroll data submitted to CMS, not from figures the facility chose to publish. The marker on each bar is the national average.
Hours per resident per day
Aides do the hands-on work, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfers, feeding.
RNs are the licence level most likely to catch a resident deteriorating.
The weekend shift
Residents are no less frail on a Saturday. This is also the shift most families visit, so it is often the thinnest one they see.
Staffing falls 11% at weekends compared with weekdays. That is a modest change, which suggests weekend cover is genuinely staffed.
Adjusted for how sick the residents are
A home caring for very frail residents needs more nursing time than one caring for largely independent residents. CMS publishes an expected level based on this home's actual resident mix.
This home staffs at 97% of what its resident mix would be expected to need.
Staff turnover
Continuity is care. A caregiver who has worked with someone for a year knows when they are not themselves.
2 administrators left this home in the reporting period. Repeated turnover in the top job usually means the problems below it are not being fixed.