Oak Hills Nursing Center

Oak Hills Nursing Center is one of four available nursing homes in Lorain, Ohio. Sporting an overall grade of D, this is a relatively poor facility. This place has very little going for it. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's second highest area was short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most important for those needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home and discovered this was this facility's strongest datapoint within this area. This place fared well in this area with 62.6 percent of its patients returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.

Our next area we assessed was long-term care, in which this facility was given an F. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 92.89099 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

The next category we assessed is nursing. This facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that category. In calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This facility averaged a meager 2.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this area. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing grade significantly.