Barnsdall Nursing Home

Barnsdall Nursing Home is in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, a city with a population of 2,333 people. This facility was awarded an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a lower end rating. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Barnsdall. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

While we didn't give this nursing home a good overall score, we did give it a strong grade in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home was given its second most favorable category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a C in this area, which is a respectable grade. With our short-term care rating, we endeavor to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility was given its third highest category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 98.50746 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

The next category we looked at was nursing, which turned out to be this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that area. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.