Oakview Skilled Nursing

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its strong profile, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in that area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Building on its remarkable profile, this nursing home also received an excellent short-term care grade, with a score of A-. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final area we analyzed is nursing. This nursing home was given a strong nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of C. Although this isn't as good as some of its other scores, this remains a decent grade for that area. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our score in this category. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is significantly below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.