Oakland Park Communities

Oakland Park Communities is a small nursing home located in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded facilities we assessed. In fact, it was given our most impressive score. We rated this nursing home as one of the top 100 facilities in Minnesota, which is a distinguished list. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's remarkable profile is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This high end facility also was superb in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to this nursing home's above average nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.1453 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for seniors. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This place provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is an extremely impressive figure which typically leads to better quality care. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and having a protocol of turning residents at least once a day.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home also excelled in the short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that area. This completed a first-rate report card. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.