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Elk City Nursing Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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301 North Garrett,
Elk City OK 73644

(580) 225-2811

47.03% estimated occupancy ¹

Elk City Nursing Center is one of only two facilities located in Elk City, Oklahoma. Sporting an overall score of B, this facility is a fine option. Based on our assessment, this place is a good fit for most people. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which we will address in the next section.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Partnership

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this place excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in that area. 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 these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

We also gave this facility a score of A+ for our long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.9798 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Nurse Quality

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. The nursing grade considers numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is a very low figure. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Switching gears to the fourth category, we awarded this facility a grade of D in our short-term care category. This is the facility's worst category grade. Sadly, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile a bit. In our short-term care category, we strive to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this place's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Elk City Nursing Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Elk City Nursing Center, 6.49% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Elk City Nursing Center, 3.03% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of long-term residents who have suffered falls resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Elk City Nursing Center, 1.55% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Additional nurse staffing limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Elk City Nursing Center, 24.57% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Elk City Nursing Center, 11.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents which are administered antianxiety medication. These medications are used to treat patients suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Elk City Nursing Center, 0% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Elk City Nursing Center, 98.99% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Elk City Nursing Center, 9.21% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Elk City Nursing Center, 8.18% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients physical and mental health.

Hospitalizations

In Elk City Nursing Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Elk City Nursing Center, 8.18% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Elk City Nursing Center, 23.78% of Patients

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Elk City Nursing Center, 93.86% of Resident

This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

Great Plains Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.18 miles away1801 West 3rd Street Elk City Oklahoma 73644Voluntary non-profit - Private(580) 225-2511
Roger Mills Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.26 miles away501 South L L Males Avenue Cheyenne Oklahoma 73628Government - Hospital District or Authority(580) 497-3336