Higher Call Nursing Center

Located in Miami, Oklahoma, Higher Call Nursing Center is one of just three available facilities in this area. Featuring an overall score of B, this appears to be a good facility. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Miami. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section

To go along with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home an A- for the area of inspections. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

Another one of this facility's impressive category scores came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B+. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.31034 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.07 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our nursing rating is largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we looked at is short-term care. For this category, we gave this facility a B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is generally a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.