Heritage Manor

To go along with its favorable overall performance, we awarded this place an A- for the area of inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Additionally, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our better scores in that area, with a score of B+. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more meaningful for those in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Oklahoma in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a patient more often.

The next area we scored was long-term care. This nursing home was given a better than average long-term care score this year, with a grade of B-. While this was not quite as strong as some of its other grades, this is nevertheless an acceptable score in that category. Our long-term care scores are pivotal for patients in need of personal care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.713615 percent of its residents, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.