Sand Springs Nursing and Rehabilitation

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it an A- for our inspections score. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care rating and that actually ended up being its second most favorable score. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility administered the vaccine to 94.117645 percent of its patients, which is an above average statistic. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. The nursing score analyzes many subcategories, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the next category, this facility didn't fare well in this category either. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Our short-term care ratings are critical for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a score of this caliber for this area, we were not shocked to discover this place was below average in multiple staffing figures we looked at. In fact, it offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.