Country Oaks Care Center

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave it a grade of A-. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received positive long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our higher grades in this category, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best grade. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.52941 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averaged only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last area we looked at is short-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this facility a D in that area. Short-term care ratings are critical for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With a grade this poor in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing metrics we focus on. The facility supplied significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.