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 always a good sign.

Additionally, we also would like to point out that this facility received favorable long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more impressive grades in that category, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest grade. For long-term care residents, the 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. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 82.77153 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this nursing home a score of D. The nursing grade includes quite a few subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's least impressive area was short-term care, which is the final category we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area. Even with multiple decent grades in other categories, this score is still concerning so we felt obligated to make a note of it. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to create a fair measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical nursing home. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.