Miami Nursing Center

Miami Nursing Center is one of only three facilities located in Miami, Oklahoma. This nursing home is a respectable facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our assessment, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of many people. One of the better aspects of this nursing home's profile is its strong inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. The last statistic we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 3.23 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this category, this figure can be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents.

We also gave this facility a solid score in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a C. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 34.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The next category we rated is nursing, is this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses are caring for patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to performing badly in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home also had rock bottom marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at more than twice the national average in both of these data points.