Oak Hill Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

Sadly, this nursing home's next most respectable category is long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated only 71.62921 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.

As it turns out, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is not a very good score. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is considered to be a fair assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The final item we considered in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.7 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

The last category we looked at was inspections. This facility didn't receive glowing government inspection reports in recent years. Consequently, we had to give it an F. For places with poor inspection scores, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This typically suggests that a nursing home's poor track record has been an issue for more than one year.