Grand Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of A-. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. Short-term care grades are generally employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared to most other nursing homes. Lastly, while this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did very well in this subcategory.

This facility's worst area was long-term care, which is the final area we assessed. For this area, we awarded this nursing home a D. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 97.93104 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.