Oakwood Village East Health and Rehab Center

Oakwood Village East Health and Rehab Center is a small non-profit nursing home located in Madison, Wisconsin. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ facility. Being awarded an A+ in our grading system takes top-notch marks across the board. Based on our assessment, this place is simply as good as it gets. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's exemplary report card is its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next section.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our short-term care grade is generally used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This place excelled at the highest level in two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided about 50% more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than a typical nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Wisconsin in this area with 68.6 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This place boasts a really impressive 5.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in several of the quality measures we looked at. With below five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared as well as any place Wisconsin in this category.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor dings are not the end of the world.

In the final category, this facility also was awarded a first-rate long-term care rating, with a grade of B+. This rounded out a very strong profile. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to looking at the impressive level of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were impressed by the nursing home's record for vaccinations. For example, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.