Mid-Town Oaks Post-Acute

Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we would like to point out its decent government inspection reports in recent years. We gave it a somewhat respectable grade of B- in this category. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an B-. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are with residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This place provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below average. Lastly, our nursing scores also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

This facility's next best category was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B-. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The key is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The final statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 6.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Turning to the final area, we awarded this facility a grade of D for long-term care. This was the facility's weakest category grade. Long-term care scores in this range 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. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 93.56223 percent of its patients. This is slightly lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.