El Reno Post-Acute Rehabilitation Center

Even though we gave this facility a very weak overall score, it did earn a somewhat better grade in the area of long-term care. We gave it a B- in that category. This was certainly better than its other grades. Long-term care grades are typically used to measure a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.30556 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We actually gave this nursing home a very solid score in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is better than many facilities in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. When determining our nursing ratings, we assess both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, while this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this metric.

The last category we scored was short-term care, turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Based on its score in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.