Claremore Nursing Home

Claremore Nursing Home is a nursing home in Claremore, Oklahoma, which has 45,705 people. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this nursing home actually is the top facility in the city. This facility has some things going for it. One of the best aspects of this facility's profile is its stellar inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection scores are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the government 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.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, it also received a very strong long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded this facility a score of A. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.68 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The next best category we gave this facility in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. Short-term care scores are vital for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared respectably with 48.2 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home's least impressive category is nursing, which is the final category we looked at. We gave it a lowly F for this area. In spite of multiple solid grades in other categories, this score is still concerning so we felt obligated to make a note of it. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this facility's nursing rating significantly.