Via Christi Village Ponca City

This nursing home received a favorable short-term care score this year. We gave them a strong score in that area, with a B+. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is often a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing rating is largely associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our long-term care category. This is one of our more favorable grades. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 82.82208 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on our last category, inspections proved to be this nursing home's weakest link. It received a score of C in this category. Inspection ratings relate to a facility's government inspection reports. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. To our surprise, this place had a category J through K deficiency, which are some of the worst possible categories of deficiencies. This often tells you the government inspectors uncovered a deficiency which placed resident health or safety in immediate jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.