Quail Ridge Living Center

Quail Ridge Living Center is the only facility we found in Colcord, Oklahoma. Sporting an overall rating of B-, this is likely a solid nursing home. This facility seems to have a few things working in its favor. This place was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any weak links in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

We want to note that this nursing home's short-term care score outpaced its overall grade. This facility received a B+ in this category, which is a very solid score. Our short-term care scores are presumably more important for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This place performed decently in this area, with 48.4 percent of its residents returning home.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category grades came in the category of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.631 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 3.18 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this area, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes based on some of the preexisting medical conditions of patients.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. The nursing rating is based on a variety of subcategories. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

In the last category we assessed, this nursing home received a decent grade in inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category. This nursing home didn't have any major weaknesses. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.