Choctaw Nation Nursing Home

With an address in Antlers, Oklahoma, Choctaw Nation Nursing Home is one of just a couple available nursing homes in the city. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B+. A grade in this range requires above average scores in most areas. Based on our assessment, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not take any chances. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 6.44 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this category, this number can be skewed for some facilities due to some of the medical complexity of residents.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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. Our nursing rating includes a variety of subcategories. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided just 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this subcategory. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident more often.

The last area we rated is short-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive category. We gave this facility a grade of D in that area. However, you should not assess this facility based solely on one weak category, as it was awarded some impressive grades in other areas. In crafting our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. It appears that this nursing home was below average in multiple staffing areas we focus on. The facility offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 40.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.