Sequoyah East Nursing Center

Sequoyah East Nursing Center is an average-sized facility located in Roland, Oklahoma. We awarded this facility an overall grade of C. A grade in this range requires some respectable marks. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. The best part of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in this area with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually outpaced most facilities in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.85 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this area, this number may be skewed for some facilities based on some of the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

This facility's second worse score was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that area. This is a well below average grade. Our short-term care grade is generally used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We were surprised to find that it performed better in this area, with 52.5 percent of its residents returning home. This was just about this nursing home's sole highlight in this category.

The final category we looked at was nursing. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. This is clearly a major concern. Our nursing grade is based on a variety of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. In addition to performing poorly in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home also had terrible scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place was at more than twice the national average in both of these data points.