Claremore Nursing Home

To pair with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.75519 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The next category we scored is short-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this area. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a fair assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.