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Bell Avenue Nursing Center

Nursing Home

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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Bell Avenue Nursing Center's website

2301 Bell Avenue,
Elk City OK 73644

(580) 225-3335

43.55% estimated occupancy ¹

Bell Avenue Nursing Center is a nursing home in Elk City, Oklahoma, which has 14,147 people. Sporting an overall rating of B+, this looks like a strong nursing home. Based on our ratings, this nursing home looks like a good fit for most people. This nursing home's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Amputee Recovery
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Tracheotomy Care
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Optometry
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this critical area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility received high marks in the area of long-term care as well. As a result, it received one of our strongest scores in that category with a area of A. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Nurse Quality

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients and the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, while this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this metric.

Short-term Care Quality

The next category we graded was nursing, is this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that area. This is one of the couple of weak links on an otherwise impressive profile. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its patients returning home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Bell Avenue Nursing Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 8.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 4.45% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who have suffered a fall which caused severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 3.64% of Patients had UTIs

This figure gauges the percent of long-term patients which had a urinary tract infection. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 13.81% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 23.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 4.69% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 92.54% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 14.6% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 13.04% Percentage of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term patients who retained mobility levels. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' mental and physical health.

Hospitalizations

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 1.99 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 13.04 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 16.38 Percentage of Patients

This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Bell Avenue Nursing Center, 75.62% Percentage of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

Great Plains Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.63 miles away1801 West 3rd Street Elk City Oklahoma 73644Voluntary non-profit - Private(580) 225-2511
Roger Mills Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.81 miles away501 South L L Males Avenue Cheyenne Oklahoma 73628Government - Hospital District or Authority(580) 497-3336