Oakland Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation
2361 East 29th Street, Oakland CA 94606 · (510) 534-3637 · 81.25% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
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.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 48 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
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.
Facility Inspections
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Oakland Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are routinely linked to poor nursing care. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely more on these drugs due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate erosion of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better