Oak Hill Care Center

Although we gave this facility a poor overall grade, we gave it a B+ for our inspections category. This was the result of the facility receiving a decent government inspection report this year. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid nursing homes that had too many severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home also didn't perform terribly in the category of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which wound up being another one of its more favorable grades. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's personal care rather than the skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 80.65327 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is several points less than average. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another unfortunate development was the F this nursing home received in the category of short-term care. In crafting these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Given its weak grade in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this place provides far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we rated is nursing, in which this facility received a poor score in this area as well. It received a lowly F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. Our nursing grade considers many subcategories. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend 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. On top of its weak nursing hour totals, this facility earned suboptimal scores in some of the quality-based metrics we considered in computing our nursing ratings. We found that more of this facility's residents suffered falls leading to serious injury. We believe that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this nursing home receiving a terrible nursing rating.