Oak Hill Care Center

We really weren't high on this nursing home's overall scores or its category grades. We gave it a just D in nursing and that proved to be its highest grade. There are a variety of subcategories within this grade. Many of these criteria are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a bit below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Sadly, this nursing home's second most respectable category is long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated just 77.0318 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is not a very good score. In forming our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this facility offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this facility really did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection rating. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We would scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Lastly, we also want to point out that this place received significant government fines in recent years in excess of $50,000. This usually signifies that inspectors became frustrated after several years of bad inspections.