Edmond Health Care Center

We did not have any favorable things to say about this facility's overall score or its category grades. Its best category is long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed badly. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 96.15385 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.96 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care rating and that actually ended up being its next highest category. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. In this facility's case, quantity of care does not appear to be the problem. According to its staffing data, this facility provided an average of 4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which was above the national average. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this facility didn't perform as well in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place was above the national average in both statistics.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We suggest you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home had a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by CMS had the potential to cause actual harm to residents. Lastly, we want to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines of more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a nursing home's poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.