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 B+ 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 long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 93.93939 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we graded is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our better grades in this area, with a grade of B. This facility proved to be strong across the board. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.