Oakwood Estate Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a poor overall grade, we also awarded this facility poor scores across the board in each of the categories. In fact, it only received a grade of just D for its inspections grade, which was its top category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had potential to cause actual harm to patients. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We also wanted to point out this nursing home's rock-bottom long-term care grade where it was given an F. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes provide. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 91.84953 percent of its patients. This is somewhat lower than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. The nursing category assesses many subcategories, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged just 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we looked at was short-term care. This facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this area. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.