Oaks of Brecksville

To pair with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than the facility's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the category of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most favorable category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. In our long-term care rating, we look at the quantity of care offered by a facility, along with a handful of quality measures. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 87.980774 percent of its residents. This is pretty significantly less than what we expected. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's next highest area is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

The next area we assessed is nursing, proved to be this nursing home's worst area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that area. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility was above average in two of the major data points we focus on, with solid marks for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are typically good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.