Choctaw Health and Rehab

On top of being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were nearly flawless. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many elite scores, this facility was given an excellent short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in this category. With our short-term care score, we strive to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility was given a superb score of A- in our long-term care category. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we analyzed is nursing, where this nursing home was awarded a B. This actually ended up being this facility's least impressive category. A facility could be doing a lot worse when their worst grade still beats out most other nursing homes. We assessed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.