Oakland Manor Nursing & Rehab Center

On top of earning a strong overall score, this facility also earned an impressive nursing score this year. We gave them one of our higher scores in that category, with a B+. Nursing grades are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a score of B+. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the last category of inspections, we gave this facility a grade of C for this category. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. To our surprise, this nursing home was assessed a category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst possible deficiencies. This generally means that CMS uncovered a deficiency which places patient safety or health in immediate jeopardy. Finally, they also received 2 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is certainly not a great sign.