Grace Living Center-Clinton

With an address in Clinton, Oklahoma, Grace Living Center-Clinton is one of just a couple available nursing homes in the city. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B-. A grade in this range requires some solid scores. Based on our assessment, this facility ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this facility's profile is its stellar inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to note that this facility was awarded a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, it received one of our most favorable scores in that category with a grade of A-. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.62 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

Sadly, this facility's third highest score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared somewhat badly. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. It looks like this facility was subpar in several staffing metrics we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility did not fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 46.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home's weakest area was nursing, which is the final category we assessed. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category. Despite a few acceptable grades in other categories, this score is still of a concern so we would like to to draw your attention to it. There are many data points included in this grade. Many of these data points reflect levels of nurse staffing. This place provided a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics hurt this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.