Oakview

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was strong in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A. Not many facilities fared better in this category. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.77419 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's worst area is short-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. For this area, we awarded this facility a D. We want to to point out this possible area of weakness, however, you should not over-emphasize a single bad area either. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It appears that this nursing home was below average in several staffing metrics we assessed. The facility offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.