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Walnut Grove Living Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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Walnut Grove Living Center's website

1001 South George Nigh Expressway,
Mcalester OK 74502

(918) 423-7373

77.37% estimated occupancy ¹

Walnut Grove Living Center is a senior living facility in Mcalester, Oklahoma, a city with a population of 29,073 people. It looks like this facility is a lower end facility. A score in this range suggests we found a few red flags. Keep in mind that Mcalester received a city grade of B-, so should look at other options in the city as well. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Partnership
Offers Hospice
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Home Making
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Aquatic Therapy

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Facility Inspections

Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility's next best area came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a C. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 81.69014 percent of its residents against pneumonia. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

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Short-term Care Quality

In addition, we gave this nursing home an F in the area of short-term care. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Considering its abysmal score in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this place offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Nurse Quality

The last category we graded was nursing. This facility received a very poor grade of F in that area. There are many data points within this category. Many of these factors relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Walnut Grove Living Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 16.47% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 3.76% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision. Closer supervision can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 3.43% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely associated with nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 15.3% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term residents which are administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically required. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 27.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 1.02% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 87.98% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 12.58% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 12.69% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' physical and mental health.

Hospitalizations

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 12.69% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 23.73% of Patients

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Walnut Grove Living Center, 59.99% of Resident

This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation services.