Atoka Manor

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 73.50427 percent of its residents. This is a few points lower than we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home an A for inspections. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an impressive short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this category. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services To have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final category we rated was nursing. In that area, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of B-. This ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. There are a variety of factors included in this category. Many of these factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. We like to look at the percentage of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are indicators of the quality of nursing care, since superior care can reduce these problems.