Generations Oakton Pavillion

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

We were also stunned to learn that this facility earned a somewhat respectable short-term care rating this year. We awarded it a grade of B- in that area. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. There are a number of factors included in this category. Many of these datapoints reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to the next area, this nursing home did not perform well here either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.156395 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.