Cordell Christian Home

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also gave this nursing home a positive grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a B+ in this category, which is one of our higher grades. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 87.03703 percent of its patients. This is a bit lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in this area. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is more often than not a fair measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Considering its score in this category, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

The last area we looked at is nursing, which turned out to be a weak spot for this facility. We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our nursing category. Our nursing rating includes a handful of subcategories, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.