Indian Oaks Living Center

Even though this place's overall grade was terrible, it didn't perform quite as poorly in long-term care. We gave it a C for that category, which isn't bad. This was not enough to salvage its otherwise poor profile. Long-term care grades are generally used to judge a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home gave the vaccine to only 70.82353 percent of its patients. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

As it turns out, its government inspection reports were not the source of this facility's bottom of the barrel overall grade. In fact, it received a C in this category. Inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we assessed was short-term care, where this facility was given a rock bottom score here as well. We gave it an F for this area, which is obviously very concerning. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below average.