Atoka Manor

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in this area with an A-. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a B in our long-term care category. This is one of our more favorable grades. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 96.32353 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. The nursing grade weighs a handful of components, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this statistic. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients more often.

This nursing home's worst area is short-term care, which is the final area we assessed. For this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. With a score of this caliber in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this facility was well below average in several staffing figures we focus on. It provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 5.3 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.