Oak Hills Nursing and Rehab

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A-. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of C. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

The next area we graded was long-term care, proved to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home vaccinated 97.77778 percent of its residents, which is a very solid statistic. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.