Oak Park Place of Janesville

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Contributing to its first-rate resume, this nursing home also was given a strong short-term care score, with a grade of A. With our short-term care grade, we try to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Another impressive feature of this nursing home is its inspection score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The final category we rated ended up being this facility's poorest area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- for long-term care. In the area of long-term care, we assess the amount of services provided by a facility, rather than more medically-intensive services. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.