Grand Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection scores are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. Surprisingly, this place was hit with a category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst possible categories of deficiencies. This often tells you inspectors found a deficiency which placed resident safety or health in immediate danger. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This facility ended up receiving a an abysmal grade in our short-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. With a grade in this range for this category, we were not stunned to learn that this nursing home was below average in many staffing figures we focus on. The facility provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. Nursing scores are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these datapoints to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we assessed was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a poor grade. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 78.212296 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.