Oak Manor Nursing Home

One of the reasons this turned out to be a decent nursing home is it earned a very favorable nursing grade. Its nursing rating is its best category. In this category, we gave this nursing home a B+. The nursing score weighs a handful of subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Texas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

This facility was awarded its second most favorable category score in the category of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable score. Long-term care scores are vital for residents looking for personal care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's third highest area turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it was given a C. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This score is considered to be a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Turning the final category of government inspections, we gave this nursing home a D for our inspection category. This proved to be this facility's worst grade. We take a weak score in this category very seriously. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Generally, you should be more cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received a substantiated complaint in the last few years. There seem to be no shortage of reasons to pass on this facility.