Edmond Health Care Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were category J through L deficiencies. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to place patient safety or health in imminent harm or jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

We were also pleasantly surprised to discover that this facility earned a somewhat respectable long-term care grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in this area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility administered the vaccine to 99.64413 percent of its patients, which is an above average statistic. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Nursing grades are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is well below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's worst category is short-term care, which is the final area we looked at. For this area, we awarded this facility a D. In determining these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care score.