Oak Hill Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

On top of faring well overall, this facility received even higher grades in our short-term care category. It received one of our best scores in that area with an A-. Short-term care grades are typically employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also want to emphasize this nursing home's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this area. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was hit with 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. There are many factors within this category. Many of these datapoints are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we rated was long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home an acceptable grade of B-. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's personal care rather than the highly skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated only 77.77778 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.