Cordell Christian Home

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also was given a favorable long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we awarded them a B+ in that area, which is one of our better. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 83.69565 percent of its residents, which is somewhat less than we expected. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility was given just a D in that area. Our short-term care ratings are arguably more important for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The next area we graded was nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is a very poor grade. This is clearly a significant disappointment. Nursing ratings are tied to nurse staffing levels. This place averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is far below average. In addition to ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility was at about 150 percent of the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics helped pull down this facility's nursing grade significantly.