Edmond Health Care Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

This facility also didn't rate too badly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a C in that area, which happens to be another one of its more respectable scores. Our short-term care grades are presumably more critical for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it only received a grade of D for its inspection grade. One of the more important factors in evaluating inspection reports is deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility had a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines of more than $50,000. This generally signifies that inspectors became frustrated after multiple years of failed health inspections.

The final area we graded is long-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 97.413795 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.