Accel at Crystal Park

Accel at Crystal Park is a small facility located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B-. A grade in this range requires some respectable marks. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. The best part of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in this area with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility also excelled in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a score of A- for that area, which happens to be one of our best scores. In forming these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 73 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

The third area we looked at is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a solid grade of C. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding vaccinations. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to our next category, we awarded this facility a D in nursing. This is the nursing home's worst category score. Naturally, this category hurt the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. Our nursing rating includes quite a few components, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.