Oak Knoll Healthcare Center

In addition to receiving a solid overall score, this nursing home also received a strong inspection score, which is based on its recent government inspections. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Adding to its strong performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of B for nursing. Our nursing rating is primarily based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B in this category. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 80.11363 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we were hoping for. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we rated was short-term care. This facility was awarded an impressive short-term care grade this year, with a grade of B. This nursing home really does not have any weak areas. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is considered to be a solid measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.