Barnsdall Nursing Home

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in long-term care. We gave it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 86.40777 percent of its patients. This is a few points below what we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also performed well in inspections, which is based on its government inspections. We awarded it an B+ for that category. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. There are a host of subcategories within this area. Many of the datapoints relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we looked at is short-term care. This nursing home received a very good short-term care grade in our assessment, with a B-. While this wasn't nearly as dominant as several of its other scores, this remains a respectable grade in that area. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.