Mangum Skilled Nursing & Therapy

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this category. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.30556 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life or death illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility 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 one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the third category, this facility also earned a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is considered to be a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Switching gears to the next area, this nursing home was given an acceptable nursing grade. While this was not quite as impressive as a few of its other scores, this is truly not a poor grade. There are numerous factors included in this category. Most of the data points relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.