Warr Acres Nursing Center

Warr Acres Nursing Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. We gave this facility an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. As far as we can see, you would be better off to avoid of this facility. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

Although this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it didn't perform quite as poorly in the area of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of B- for that area, which isn't bad. This wasn't enough to salvage its otherwise weak profile. Our long-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of nursing services. This means a broad range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 92.775665 percent of its patients for pneumonia. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.14 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Our nursing score is mostly based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a C for our short-term care score, which is not a bad grade. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home performed better in this statistic. This place performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 53.4 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. For places with bad inspection grades, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This facility had 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines exceeding $50,000. This usually suggests that inspectors became fed up after multiple years of bad health inspections.