Cimarron Pointe Care Center

This nursing home earned an inspection score which is stronger than its overall score. Inspection scores are tied to a nursing home's recent health inspections. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's second most favorable area ended up being long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. Long-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of nursing care. This means a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third category we graded is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of C in this category. In forming our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home was given a respectable nursing score of C. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.