Medical Park West Rehabilitation & Skilled Care

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.

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.

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.

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.