Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care is an average-sized nursing home located in Norman, Oklahoma. This turns out to be a solid facility, with an overall grade of B-. In a city without an elite selection of nursing homes, we rated this nursing home ahead of most of the nursing homes in Norman. One of the better aspects of this nursing home's report card is its impressive short-term care rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.
Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Please note our records indicate that Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
This facility earned an elite short-term care grade. We gave this nursing home an impressive grade of A in this area, which really helped out its overall grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
This facility also excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing rating features a host of datapoints. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Oklahoma in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving residents even once per day.
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Facility Inspections
Turning to the area of inspections, we gave this facility a D for our inspection category. This was one of this facility's weaker links. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed one deficiency by government inspectors. Fortunately, it was not in one of the categories that suggest that it created a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines exceeding $50,000. This usually indicates that government inspectors became frustrated after multiple years of failed inspections.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our fourth category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in the area of long-term care. This is the nursing home's least impressive category rating. Naturally, this category hurt the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit alarmed this facility gave the vaccine to just 87.61062 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 8.97% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term residents that developed pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are an measure of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 4.39% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing care can limit the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 3.49% of Patients had UTIs
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term patients who have sustained UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this metric could also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 14.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs may be used for a variety of conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 24.47% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 3.91% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 92.49% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 14.12% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 14.93% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who retained mobility levels.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 14.93 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 14.86 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care, 71.57% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Scores for Norman, OK
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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