Oak Woods Home for the Elderly

We awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A+ for our long-term care score. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 94.3128 percent of its patients, which is better than most nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's inspection rating exceeded its overall score as well. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a B. This is a notably better grade than its overall score. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Next we looked at nursing grades, where this nursing home received an F, which is a rock bottom grade. This area was definitely not a strength for this facility. Our nursing rating analyzes quite a few subcategories, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the final category we assessed. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area. In spite of multiple respectable scores in other areas, this grade is still alarming so we wanted to make sure you are aware. Our short-term care grades are arguably most important for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Given its score in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.