Oak Creek Terrace

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home really excelled in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Very few facilities performed better in this area. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.2973 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is significantly below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

The last category we analyzed proved to be this facility's worst category. However, even in its worst category we still gave it a respectable grade of C for short-term care. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.