Osage Nursing Home

Osage Nursing Home is a nursing home in Nowata, Oklahoma, which has 6,092 people. With an A- overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all nursing homes in the country. We really can not say enough good things about this facility. If you look below, you will see this place's category scores, which are also impressive.

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility performed well in inspections, where it received an A-. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its dominant performance in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A- for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.55556 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 1.3 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This place provided 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is an extremely impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Lastly, we also looked at nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Turning to our fourth area, this facility was given a highly favorable short-term care rating. Although this wasn't nearly as elite as many of its other grades, this is still one of the more impressive scores a facility can receive. With our short-term care grade, we strive to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.