Oak Grove Nursing Home

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher scores in that area, with an A+. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more impressive scores. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.612404 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility received its next most favorable category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is frequently a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last category we analyzed is nursing, which proved to be this facility's weakest area. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is certainly very concerning. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. In addition to its subpar nursing hours, this nursing home also received suboptimal marks in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in computing our nursing ratings. We found that a higher percentage of this facility's residents suffered falls which led to major injury.