The King's Daughters & Sons Nursing Home

The King's Daughters & Sons Nursing Home is one of just three available facilities located in Durant, Oklahoma. Sporting an overall rating of C, this is likely a solid nursing home. This actually turned out to be the best nursing home in Durant. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next section.

This facility performed well in the area of long-term care, where it earned an A-. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Although it had 2.52 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most facilities due to it having some more complicated patients.

This facility also performed well in inspections. It received one of our best scores in that category with an B+. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility's third most favorable category was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it was respectable in this area with 47.3 percent of its residents returning home.

The next area we graded is nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is a poor grade. This is certainly a major concern. There are a host of factors within this area. Most of the subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.