Oahu Care Facility

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents more frequently.

This nursing home also received an A+ long-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to receive several A+ category grades. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.06299 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the next area we assessed, this nursing home was given superb marks in the area of short-term care. Consequently, it received one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of of A+. Short-term care grades are often used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Another impressive feature for this nursing home is its inspection rating. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-, wrapping up its straight A performance. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.