Mcalester Nursing & Rehab is a senior living facility in Mcalester, Oklahoma. The city has a total of 29,073 people. With an overall rating of A-, this nursing home is among the better facilities we looked at. Indeed, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it substantially ahead of most of the nursing homes in Mcalester. The best part of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
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Mcalester Nursing & Rehab
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
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Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home received nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A+. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another reason we graded this nursing home so highly is that it was awarded an A+ long-term care grade. This is flat out as dominant as it gets in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.101265 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Nursing grades are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we scored was short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home an acceptable grade of B-. This actually ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more critical for folks in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mcalester Nursing & Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 2.82% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 1.9% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents which had a fall which resulted in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients that experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's could be an indication of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can also be skewed for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 8.99% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are used for several conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 41.86% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 1.37% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients exhibiting symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression could imply a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 99.05% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 6.45% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate erosion of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 1.27% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that were able to retain mobility. Many argue that mobility is important for patients health.
Hospitalizations
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 1.27% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 18.3% of Patients
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Mcalester Nursing & Rehab, 53.81% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Mcalester, OK
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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