Oakwood Manor Bedford Memorial

This nursing home excelled in the category of short-term care, with an A- in this area. This really boosted its overall score. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also received an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 76.75439 percent of its patients. This is a bit below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. The nursing rating includes many components, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a low total compared to most other nursing homes. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

The last category we assessed is inspections. Unfortunately, we were surprised to find that this facility did not receive a favorable inspection score. We gave it a score of just D in this category. This score is not on par with some of this facility's other grades. Inspection grades relate to a facility's inspections. Since this information is collected by independent inspectors, we tend to weight it pretty heavily. Our inspection ratings weigh many items found on the facility's inspection reports. If you see severe deficiencies on the reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we also would like to point out that this facility was assessed large government fines totaling over $100,000. This usually means that a bad track record spanned several years.