Community Health Center

With an address in Wakita, Oklahoma, Community Health Center is the sole nursing home we were able to find in the city. This facility received an overall grade of B, which is a good grade. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is a good fit for most people. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

This nursing home earned a strong overall score as discussed above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent long-term care grade. We gave them an A+ in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.242424 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last statistic we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.12 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. It received one of our best grades in that area with a score of A-. Few facilities with an overall grade in this range performed as well in multiple categories. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. Nursing scores are largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Turning to our last category, this facility was given a grade of C for short-term care, which we consider to be an acceptable grade. Our short-term care ratings are presumably most meaningful for folks needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 31.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.