Medicalodges Dewey

Medicalodges Dewey is located in Dewey, Oklahoma, a city with a total of 5,128 people. Featuring an overall grade of A-, this facility is one of the higher-rated nursing homes we assessed. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its long-term care grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Although we determined this facility has an above average quantity of nursing hours provided by nurses and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be somewhat low. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 75.46012 percent of its patients. This is a statistic we would like to see this facility improve. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 1.81 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Our inspection grades are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. The nursing grade consists of several components, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which was above the national average. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category.

The next category we rated is short-term care. This facility received a favorable nursing grade this year, with a grade of B. Although this wasn't as dominant as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our more favorable grades for that area. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home. We found that this nursing home was better than average with 53.9 percent of its residents able to return home.