Inola Health & Rehabilitation

While we were fairly low on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

One of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the category of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most respectable category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a C. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for patients in need of more conventional assistance associated with personal care. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 61.21212 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly less than average. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. In computing a facility's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are with patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we scored was short-term care. It received an F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. Our short-term care grades are arguably more important for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Based on its weak grade in this area, we were not stunned to learn this place provides significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.