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 B- 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 99.545456 percent of its patients. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Nursing grades are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

Our last area is short-term care, where we gave this nursing home a C in that area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The real question is whether this also impacted quality of care. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.