Ranchwood Nursing Center

Ranchwood Nursing Center is a large government-owned nursing home in Yukon, Oklahoma. This facility is a subpar nursing home. A score of this caliber indicates we found a few red flags. As far as we can see, we would be very reluctant to recommend this facility. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that have a long list of deficiencies. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home's second most favorable category is long-term care. We gave it a C in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this area. Our long-term care ratings are more critical for those needing more conventional services related to personal care. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.261086 percent of its patients. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was less impressive. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.35 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility's third highest area came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Short-term care scores are critical for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. In fact, we found it was above average in this metric with 50.7 percent of its residents returning home.

The final category we analyzed was nursing. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal score. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. In addition to being below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in both of these data points. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.