Broken Arrow Nursing Home

This facility earned a strong overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent long-term care rating. We awarded them an A- in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also excelled in inspections. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for that area, which is one of our best scores. This is one of the few facilities with an overall score in this range which earned multiple category grades this high. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, while this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory.

The last category we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a grade of B- for the area. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.