Oak Grove Nursing & Rehab

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Additionally, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was given impressive long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our better grades in this category, with a B. This proved to be the facility's second highest grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 84.87972 percent of its patients. This is a few points lower than we anticipated. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's second worse score was short-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that category. This is a relatively poor score. Short-term care grades are meaningful for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its score in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home really didn't fare very well here either. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Our nursing rating includes a variety of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this facility's nurse staffing levels were far below average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this facility's nursing rating significantly.