Linn Oak Rehabilitation Center

This facility's best category grade came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility also earned a strong inspection grade. Inspection grades are based on the facility's recent health inspections. We gave this facility a B in this category. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Places that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Long-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's amount of care. This includes a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 98.75 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last area we assessed is nursing. We awarded it a B- in this area. This is a fair grade in this category. The nursing grade assesses quite a few data points, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also baked a few quality measures into our nursing scores. This facility was subpar in two of the major areas we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are typically reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.