Focus on Excellence/Oklahoma Nursing Home Ratings

Focus on Excellence, the OHCA program for Oklahoma nursing home ratings, is designed to measure nursing home improvements in the quality of life, care and services. The Focus on Excellence program began July 1, 2007. There are 265 facilities enrolled in the program.

Stars on the Oklahoma nursing home Web site are obtained by facilities based on 10 quality indicators. Each indicator will have a star rating and the facilities can earn up to five stars. The quality measures are:

1. Quality of Life
2. Resident/Family Satisfaction
3. Employee Satisfaction
4. CNA/TA Turnover and Retention
5. Nurse Turnover and Retention
6. State Survey Compliance
7. Level of Person-Centered Care
8. Direct Care Hours
9. Clinical Outcomes
10. SoonerCare Occupancy and Medicare Utilization

Members may search the Oklahoma nursing home ratings Web site at www.oknursinghomeratings.com to locate facilities according to the star rating. Each quality indicator will have a star rating.

Please contact Jennifer Wynn at 405-522-7306 for more information.