Oaks of West Kettering The

Oaks of West Kettering The turns out to be one of a list of 33 facilities in Dayton, Ohio. This city has more options compared to most other areas in Ohio. Sporting an overall grade of C, this looks like a middle of the road nursing home. Based on our assessment, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. This nursing home did not meet our expectations in every category we looked at, but it did not receive any rock-bottom grades either. More information about its category grades can be found below.

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. Our inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of this facility's more favorable category scores was in the category of short-term care. This turned out to be its second best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our short-term care scores are arguably most meaningful for those needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 49.7 percent of its patients returning home.

The third best category we gave this facility in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a C. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 93.979935 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was less favorable. We found that this place had 2.5 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

The next area we graded is nursing, which turned out to be a weak link for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in nursing. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. On top of its subpar nursing hours, this nursing home earned suboptimal marks in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in calculating our nursing ratings. We found that more of this place's residents sustained falls which led to major injury. We would argue that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this nursing home receiving a terrible nursing rating.