Oakmont Guest Care Center

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of A-. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

In addition, we awarded this facility a B in our long-term care category. This is one of our better scores. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facilities next most favorable area was short-term care. We awarded it a C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. In computing these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The real question is whether this also affected quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next category we assessed is nursing, which was this nursing home's worst category. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is certainly a major concern. When calculating our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This facility offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.