Bradford Village

It should be noted that this facility's inspection rating outpaced its overall grade. In fact, we gave it a B+ for its inspections rating, which is a very solid score. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

In addition, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was awarded impressive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in this area, with a B. This proved to be the facility's second strongest score. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Oklahoma in this metric with 62.4 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This facilities next most favorable category was long-term care. We awarded it a C in this category. This is basically a slightly below average score in this category. Our long-term care grades are more important for people in need of more conventional services associated with activities of daily living. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 96.234314 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.27 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less impressive than its other scores in this category.

The next area we assessed was nursing, which ended up being a low point for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a D for the area of nursing. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These scores hurt this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.