The Golden Rule Home

The Golden Rule Home is an average-sized facility located in Shawnee, Oklahoma. With an overall grade of D, this is a lower end facility. This is not the worse facility we found, however, we would still be very reluctant to recommend it. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

While we were not high on this facility's overall score, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had a long list of severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an B-. The nursing rating assesses many factors, however, the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's third best score was long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared somewhat poorly. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 96.55173 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.13 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The final category we looked at was short-term care, proved to be this facility's worst category. We gave this facility a D in this category. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. As you might expect, we found that this place offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical nursing home. The last area we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. It fared better in this area, with 49.2 percent of its residents returning home. This was just about this nursing home's only redeeming quality in this area.