Oak View Rehabilitation Center

One of the reasons this place is a quality nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections is its best category. In this area, we gave this facility a grade of A. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home received a favorable long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better grades in that area with a grade of B. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.70502 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we looked at was short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B- in this category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services To provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

The final area we assessed is nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in that area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are with patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we like to look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.