Drumright Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing score is based on several datapoints, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a resident more often.

On the list of its many high-end scores, this facility was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The last area we looked at was long-term care, in which this facility was given a B. This actually turned out to be this facility's worst category. A nursing home is doing something right when it's lowest grade still is superior to most other facilities. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.