Oak Creek Terrace

Oak Creek Terrace is one of 33 nursing homes located in Dayton, Ohio. This city has quite a few more facilities than most cities in Ohio. Featuring an overall grade of B+, this facility should work for most prospective patients. Based on our ratings, you can do much worse than this place. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any weak links in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of performing well overall, this facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it earned one of our best scores in that category with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility truly excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Not many facilities performed more favorably in this area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.39583 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing rating includes several components, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

The next category we looked at is short-term care, where this facility received a grade of C. While this proved to be its least impressive category score, this is nevertheless not the end of the world. In our short-term care score, we attempt to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 44.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.