Oakview Nursing & Rehabilitation

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility also earned first-rate health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in this area, with a grade of A. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this facility an B+. Nursing scores are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home received its third best category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a decent score. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

Turning to our fourth category, we awarded this facility a grade of D for the area of long-term care. This is the nursing home's weakest category rating. Unfortunately, this category hurt the nursing home's overall grade a bit. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.