Oahu Care Facility

Oahu Care Facility is in Honolulu, Hawaii. The city offers many options. This nursing home is an A+ rated facility, which is the absolute highest grade. Based on our analysis, this place is really as good as it gets. Scroll down to find this place's category grades, which are equally impressive. You really can't do much better than a straight A profile.

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation with 74.9 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is largely based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Approximately one quarter of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are among the most highly skilled nurses. Both of these statistics easily beat out the national average. Lastly, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Turning our third area, this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A in this area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home's vaccination records lagged a bit behind a few of its other statistics in this area, such as its nursing hours data. It provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 77.854675 percent of its patients. We'd love to see some improvement in this area in the future. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.93 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another impressive feature for this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A-, wrapping up its straight A performance. Our inspection scores are tied to several data points found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.