Grace Living Center-Southwest O K C

In addition to earning a strong overall rating, this facility performed even better in our inspections category which is associated with the facility's recent government inspections. We awarded it an A for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an B. The nursing category analyzes a handful of factors, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home was awarded an impressive long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.23757 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Clearly, this nursing home 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.

The final area we rated is short-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of B-. This was this facility's worst category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.