Cimarron Nursing Center

Unfortunately, we gave this nursing home some extremely poor category grades. This includes an F for its inspection rating. This is a very important category. Scores in this range generally point to some red flags on the facility's government inspection reports. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular facility had 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

Another issue is the F this nursing home was given in the category of long-term care. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated only 74.68355 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Turning to the last area, this nursing home did not perform well in this category either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. Nursing scores are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This place offered a meager 0.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.