Oak Manor Nursing Home

In addition to having a decent overall score, we also wanted to point out that this facility received favorable nursing marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. This proved to be the facility's top grade. We assessed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility also was given a strong score in our long-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B in this category. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. This facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. While it had 3.67 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most facilities due to it having some more complex patients.

The third category we looked at was short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of C in this category. Short-term care grades are typically employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 41.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility did not receive a favorable inspection rating. We gave it just a just D in this category. Inspection ratings relate to a nursing home's inspections. One of the most significant factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident safety or health. 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.