Oakland Healthcare & Wellness Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

In addition, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was given positive short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our better grades in this category, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the nursing home's second strongest score. In our short-term care rating, we endeavor to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this statistic. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning patients even once per day.

Switching gears to our final area, we awarded this nursing home a D in the area of long-term care. This is the nursing home's worst category score. Unfortunately, this category hurt the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility provided the vaccine to 99.64158 percent of its residents, which is an above average percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.