Oaktree Healthcare

Oaktree Healthcare is located in Daytona Beach, Florida. The city has a total of 99,390 people. This nursing home received an excellent grade of A- overall. This is even better than the city grade of B+ in Daytona Beach, which is also well above average. In spite of Daytona Beach having 12 nursing homes to choose from, this facility stood out as a great choice. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its high-end achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care score. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.27273 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.08 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing grade is based on several factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we rated was short-term care. This facility was awarded a better than average short-term care score in our assessment, with a B-. While this isn't as elite as several of its other category grades, this is still an acceptable score for that area. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 37.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.