Oak Park Place of Nakoma

We also would like to point out that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We gave them an A+ in this category. When determining a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses spend with patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We weren't able to locate deficiency data for this facility. We wish we had more data for this nursing home. Without having all of the information regarding deficiencies, it was a challenge to fully grade the place in this area.

This facility also was elite in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities performed better in this category. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is considered to be a solid measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The next area we looked at is this nursing home's poorest area. However, even in its worst category we still awarded it a decent grade of C for our long-term care category. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.