Grace Living Center-El Reno

Grace Living Center-El Reno is one of just a couple available nursing homes located in El Reno, Oklahoma. This facility appears to be ranked among the higher-rated facilities we assessed. A score of this caliber requires first-rate marks across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the nation. If you look below, you will see this place's category grades, which are also impressive.

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also earned A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually perfect. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its first-rate resume, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A- for that area. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 88.549614 percent of its patients. This is a few points lower than we were hoping for. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.18 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing grades are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we looked at was this nursing home's worst area. However, even its lowest point would actually be a highlight for most nursing homes. In fact, we awarded it a favorable grade of B for our short-term care category. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 42.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.