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To go along with its favorable overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A- for the area of inspections. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care scores are likely more important for residents requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing category consists of a handful of components, most of which are based on nursing hours. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 nursing home Oklahoma in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient at least once a day.

The next area we analyzed ended up being this nursing home's poorest area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of B- for our long-term care category. In computing our long-term care ratings, we analyze the assistance with daily living offered to the facility's residents. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 98.55073 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.