Ocala Oaks Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in this area, with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Another one of this facility's impressive category scores came in the category of short-term care. We gave them one of our more positive grades in that area, with a score of B+. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility was given a strong long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that category with a score of B+. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.42693 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life threatening illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next category we scored was nursing, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. While this ended up being its weakest category grade, this is nevertheless not a bad grade. Our nursing rating assesses many data points, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in some quality-focused measures. We especially look at the percentage of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these issues.