Talihina Manor Nursing Home

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A-. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also gave this nursing home a strong grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a B+ in this area, which is one of our better scores. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care, where this facility was given a grade of C in this area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The question is whether this also impacted quality of care. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

The next category we analyzed is nursing, was this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this area. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This place offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics hurt this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.