Oakland Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation

Oakland Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation is a small facility in Oakland, California. It looks like this nursing home is among the best nursing homes we found. A grade in this range requires excellent marks across the board. In fact, we ranked this facility as the second best facility in Oakland. Headlining this facility's exemplary report card is its short-term care rating, which we will address in the next section.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is generally used to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home is substantially above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. In fact, it provided about 50% more care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 71.4 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing score is mostly associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 5.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility California. Avoiding major falls is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are employed.

The final area we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care rating this year, with a C. While this is not quite as dominant as many of its other grades, this is nevertheless a decent score in this area. In computing our long-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of providing quality levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This figure is higher than most nursing homes. This combination proved to be successful as this place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.