Oakview

Oakview is a small nursing home located in Conrad, Iowa. Featuring an overall score of A-, this is without a doubt a very good nursing home. We could not find many negative things to say about this facility. Its grades are impeccable. Scroll down to see this nursing home's category grades, which are also strong. It is hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also received A+ inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually perfect. Our inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many dominant grades, this nursing home was given an excellent long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in this area. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 90.18405 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is a bit below what we expected but still a respectable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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+. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this category. This facility provided 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident more often.

Moving on to our fourth area, this facility received a high-end short-term care grade. Although this is not nearly as good as many of its other category grades, this remains one of the stronger grades a facility can receive. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 52.7 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, less than half of their short-stay residents return home.