Hampton Oaks Health Campus

With an address in Scottsburg, Indiana, Hampton Oaks Health Campus is one of four available nursing homes there. With an overall score of B+, this is actually the number one rated facility in the city. Based on the data we reviewed, you can do much worse than this nursing home. Fortunately, this nursing home did not have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

In addition to earning a strong overall rating, this nursing home fared even better in the area of inspections which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care score. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is typically a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Indiana with 58.1 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our nursing score weighs many subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

The next category we analyzed is this facility's poorest area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a respectable grade of B- in our long-term care category. With our long-term care assessment, we look at the volume of care offered by a facility, along with a few quality measures. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 98.9418 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.79 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this place was not too far off the national average.