Cimarron Pointe Care Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.22481 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. It received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with a score of A. Few nursing homes with an overall score in this range performed this well in multiple categories. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facilities third best area was short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average score in this area. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next area we looked at is nursing. We gave this nursing home an acceptable grade in that category, with a grade of C. Even though this wasn't as favorable as a few of this facility's other scores, it is still a middle of the pack score. Our nursing rating weighs several components, however, the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.