Oak Hills Nursing Center

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We also gave this nursing home a middle of the road score in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a C. In our long-term care category, we weigh the sheer quantity of care provided by a facility, along with a series of quality datapoints. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated just 79.91266 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. This facility's received a poor short-term care grade where it received a lowly F. Our short-term care scores are crucial for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its abysmal grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn this facility offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final area we scored was nursing. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. There are numerous factors included in this category. Many of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.