Oakview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also performed well in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Few facilities fared more favorably in this category. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 78.888885 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a few points less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. Our nursing grade includes quite a few factors, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. With a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we looked at was short-term care, which is this facility's worst area. It received a lowly F in this category, which is certainly concerning. In determining these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.7 percent of its residents returning home.