Oak Pointe Nursing & Rehab Center

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in this area with an A. Inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the area of long-term care, we awarded this nursing home a score of A- in that area. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.84543 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to minimize negative health outcomes for the senior population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility an impressive grade of D. Our nursing score is based on a host of datapoints. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averaged only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's worst area is short-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. Short-term care grades are often employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. It looks like this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we considered. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.