Oak Park Place of Janesville

Oak Park Place of Janesville is a small nursing home located in Janesville, Wisconsin. This nursing home is an A rated facility. This facility was given one of the best ratings that we offer. A grade in this range requires excellent scores across the board. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a no brainer for most people. This nursing home was also given phenomenal scores in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes fared this well in this area. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its impressive performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care grade. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. This nursing home is head and heels above most nursing homes in this area.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. There are a number of subcategories included in this grade. Most of the criteria relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This was one of the higher totals we found. In addition, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. In addition to providing high levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in the state in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final area we graded is short-term care, where this nursing home received an A-. This wrapped up a very strong report card. Only a select few nursing homes received an A- or higher in each of our categories. Our short-term care scores are important for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.