Oak Trace Care & Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with an A+. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Nursing scores are mostly tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a low total compared to most facilities. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

Moving on to the category of long-term care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.666664 percent of its patients, which is higher than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Switching gears to the final area, we gave this facility a D in our short-term care category. This is the nursing home's weakest category rating. Our short-term care scores are vital for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.