Choctaw Residential Center

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

In addition, we also wanted to note that this nursing home received positive long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second highest grade. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 88.679245 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. There are several criteria within this grade. Many of these factors reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

The final area we rated is short-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. Of course, this score hurt the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. It looks like this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we assessed. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.