Beare Manor

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing ended up being its best category. In that category, we gave this facility an A. Our nursing rating analyzes a handful of subcategories, however, the main one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Oklahoma in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a resident more frequently.

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave them one of our stronger grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. Our short-term care scores are presumably most critical for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care rating in our assessment, with a grade of B. This nursing home really doesn't have any weak categories. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 95 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.