Majestic Oaks

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is just about as good as it gets in this area. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 95.96774 percent of its residents. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we looked at is short-term care. This nursing home was superb in our short-term care rating also. We awarded them an impressive score of A+ in this category. In our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility received a highly favorable nursing rating. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this area, rounding out a straight A profile. We assessed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented with better nursing care.