University Village Retirement Community

University Village Retirement Community is an average-sized nursing home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This turns out to be a highly rated facility, with an overall grade of B+. Indeed, we thought highly enough of this facility to rank it ahead of most of the facilities in Tulsa. This nursing home's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next section.

On top of being an elite nursing home overall, this facility also performed well in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Very few nursing homes fared as well in this area. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. 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 an excellent sign.

Contributing to this facility's list of strengths, it also received a fine long-term care grade. We gave them an elite strong of A- in this area. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of providing very impressive levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 98.314606 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.51 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Turning our third category, this nursing home received a very impressive short-term care grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. In forming these short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. We were very impressed to learn that this nursing home provides its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other facilities. The last datapoint 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 performed as well as just about any nursing home in Oklahoma in this area with 67.9 percent of its patients returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Switching gears to our next category, we gave this facility a grade of D for our nursing category. This is the facility's worst category grade. However, you shouldn't over-emphasize one bad score. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses commit to patients and the level of licensure of the nurses. Quantity of nursing care does not appear to be the problem here. Based on the data, it looks like this nursing home provides an above average 4.4 hours per resident per day. This is more nursing care than most facilities offer. Lastly, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing scores. Specifically, we look at the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.