Tuttle Care Center

Tuttle Care Center is a small nursing home located in Tuttle, Oklahoma. It looks like this is a very respectable facility. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable rating. As far as we can see, this place looks like a solid choice for quite a few people. You should also take a look at this nursing home's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next section.

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as mentioned above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent long-term care score. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.31973 percent of its patients, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. With 2 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility is close to average in this area.

This facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our best grades. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. In calculating our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Although this facility did not have as many nursing hours per resident as many other nursing homes we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding falls. This is usually an indicator of how carefully a facility's nursing staff is tending to its residents. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. For this area, we gave this facility a grade of D. With our short-term care score, we try to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 33.5 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.