Hirest Nursing Center

Hirest Nursing Center is located in the large metropolitan area of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. With an overall score of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. In our grading scheme, this is one of the bottom five rated facilities in Oklahoma City. In a city with more than 30 other nursing homes, you will probably be able to find a better option. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

This nursing home received rock bottom scores in our assessment. Perhaps most alarmingly, it received an F for its inspection grade. Typically, this means we found some red flags on its inspections. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We would pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. Tragically, this nursing home was assessed several category J through L deficiencies. This indicates widespread deficiencies placing patient health or safety in imminent danger. These deficiencies are very damaging to a facility's inspection rating. Finally, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines of more than $50,000. This usually means that government inspectors became fed up after multiple years of failed inspections.

Sadly, this facility received an F for its long-term care grade. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the vaccine to a relatively low 82.706764 percent of its patients. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.66 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also concerning.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. There are numerous factors within this grade. Many of the criteria reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 2.7 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These statistics hurt this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.

The last area we looked at is short-term care. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that area. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 20.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.