Sequoyah Pointe Living Center

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this facility an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall grade. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the most 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 always a good sign.

This nursing home also fared well in the area of long-term care. For this reason, we gave it a grade of A- in that category, which is one of our most impressive grades. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.36709 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. We gave it a F in this area. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we looked at is short-term care. It received an F for this category, which is an abysmal score. This is certainly a significant concern. Short-term care scores are vital for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With a score in this range for this area, we were not shocked to find this place was below average in multiple staffing areas we looked at. The nursing home supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.