Oakwood Village - Prairie Ridge Campus

In addition to earning a great overall score, this nursing home also received an A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When computing our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last area we graded was long-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. Nevertheless, we would not judge this nursing home solely on a single bad category, as it was awarded a few high-end scores in other categories. Nursing homes that do not score well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 82.14286 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than the national average. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.