Oak Park Oasis

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. In calculating our nursing ratings, we assess both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provides only 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our short-term care score. This is well below average in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this nursing home offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics sunk this facility's short-term care score.

The last area we analyzed is long-term care. It received a lowly F in this category, which is a poor score. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home administered the vaccine to only 51.923077 percent of its patients, which is somewhat concerning. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.