Oak Brook Health Care Center

Oak Brook Health Care Center is an average-sized facility in Whitehouse, Texas. It looks like this facility is a relatively poor nursing home. A score of this caliber suggests we found a few red flags. This was not the worse facility we found, however, we would still be very reluctant to recommend it. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

Although we didn't grade this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent grade in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with too many severe deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. This wound up being its second most respectable category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. In computing our long-term care ratings, we analyze the personal care offered to a facility's patients. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 95.17426 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less impressive than its other scores in this category.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. The nursing grade weighs quite a few factors, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared with most other facilities. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. While this place didn't have as many nursing hours as many of the other nursing homes we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding major falls. This is generally a good indicator of how carefully a nursing home's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we scored was short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is a poor score. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. As you might expect, we found that this place offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 34 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.