Grand Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation

While this place's overall grade was abysmal, it actually didn't perform terribly in our short-term care category. We gave it a C for that category, which is a decent score. That said, this wasn't enough to salvage its overall profile. Short-term care grades are crucial for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The hope is that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. Finally, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

Among this place's worst category grades was an F for its inspection grade. Typically, this means we found some red flags on the nursing home's government inspections. With places that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was assessed a category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst categories of deficiencies. Finally, we want to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines of over $100,000. This often suggests that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.

The next area we scored was long-term care. This nursing home was given a very poor grade of F in that category. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated just 81.920906 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.