Cimarron Pointe Care Center

While this nursing home'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 highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this area. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.23077 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of D. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses spend with patients and the level of skill of those nurses. This facility averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Moving on to our next area, we gave this nursing home a D in our short-term care category. This is the facility's weakest category score. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Considering its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.