Flannery Oaks Guest House

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, it does not look like we have deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home also fared well in the area of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in that category, which is one of our highest grades. When facilities receive this kind of grade 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 vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we gave this nursing home an F. This is certainly not one of this facility's better areas. Our nursing score assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's worst area was short-term care, which is the last area we assessed. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category. Even with a few decent grades in other areas, this grade is nevertheless alarming so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this nursing home offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.