Gordon Oaks Health & Rehab

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Not many nursing homes fared better in this category. Our inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

Another one of this facility's above average category grades came in the area of short-term care. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B. In our short-term care category, we try to create a sound measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. The nursing category weighs quite a few components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving residents more often.

Moving on to our next area, this facility was awarded a grade of C for long-term care, which is an acceptable score. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 70.5314 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a bit lower than what we expected. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.