Grafton Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection score. Its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Sadly, this nursing home received a category L deficiency, which is unexpected based on its inspection rating. This category means inspectors discovered a widespread deficiency putting resident health or safety in immediate danger. While other aspects of this nursing home's inspection report were favorable, we have some reservations.

This facilities second most favorable category was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.47369 percent of its patients. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Unfortunately, this facility only earned a D for its short-term care score, which is not a very good score. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Given its poor score in this area, we weren't stunned to find this facility provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care score.

The last area we scored is nursing, which proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. Nursing grades are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. To pair with its low total nursing hours per patient, this place had really poor marks in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents sustaining falls leading to serious injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that so many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a poor nursing score.