Enid Senior Care

Enid Senior Care is a facility located in Enid, Oklahoma, a city with 53,026 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A score of this caliber requires some respectable marks. This grade is not too far off the city grade for Enid, which is a B-. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next section.

This place excelled in the category of long-term care, where it earned an A. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. Nursing ratings are largely based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored in some quality-based metrics. This place fared well in a few of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is often an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care.

Moving on to our last category, this nursing home didn't perform well. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this was this nursing home's weakest grade. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 28.6 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.