Oakwood Village - Prairie Ridge Campus

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In our short-term care category, we try to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that 7.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. In calculating a facility's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents more often.

This nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an impressive grade of B+ for that category, which is among our best grades. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B. Believe it or not, this proved to be this facility's least impressive area. A facility could be doing a lot worse when it's lowest grade still is superior to most other nursing homes. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.