El Reno Post-Acute Rehabilitation Center

Even though we gave this place an awful overall score, we gave it a C for long-term care. Our long-term care grade is generally used to gauge a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.2 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

As it turns out, its government inspection reports were not the source of this nursing home's rock bottom overall grade. It received a C in this category. We would argue that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This place was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories G through L. This means inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. The nursing rating assesses a handful of subcategories, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's least impressive area was short-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. In crafting these short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage 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 residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.