Saint Simeons Episcopal Home

Saint Simeons Episcopal Home is an average-sized non-profit facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is a good nursing home. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a favorable grade. This ought to be on your short list in Tulsa as we ranked it as one of the top 10 facilities in the city. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.

To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this facility a grade of A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this facility a score of A for our long-term care grade. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to offering very impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.706894 percent of its patients. This percentage is also significantly higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.66 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

The third category we assessed is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a decent grade of B-. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility and discovered this was this facility's strongest datapoint within this area. We found that it fared well in this area with 56.1 percent of its patients returning home.

The final area we assessed is nursing, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. Naturally, this grade hurt the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. In this facility's case, quantity of care does not appear to be the problem. According to its CMS reports, this nursing home provided an average of 5.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which was above the national average. Finally, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing grades. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.