Drumright Nursing Home

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. When determining a nursing home's nursing score, we look at the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient at least once a day.

This facility also excelled in inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care grades this year. In fact, we gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B. Our short-term care grade is often used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home received a decent long-term care score. Even though this was not as elite as many of its other grades, this is truly not the end of the world. In the area of long-term care, we assess the amount of care offered by a facility, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinates 99.27007 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.