Angel Oak Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of this facility's more respectable category grades was in the area of long-term care. This ended up being its second best category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Our long-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's amount of nursing services. This means a broad range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 55.07812 percent of its patients for pneumonia. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's second worse category was short-term care, where it received just a D in that area. This is a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 5.2 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

This facility's worst area was nursing, which is the last area we assessed. It received an abysmal F in this area. Despite some respectable grades in other areas, this grade is nevertheless of a concern so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Our nursing grade weighs a host of factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these data points to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.