Bixby Knolls Healthcare Center

This facility earned a nursing score which is stronger than its overall score. We awarded this facility an above average score of B in this category. The nursing rating is based on a handful of subcategories, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also earned a strong inspection grade. Inspection grades are based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We gave this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's third best area was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Our short-term care grades are important for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning to our next category, this facility didn't perform very well. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this was its worst category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 97.95918 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.