Oroville Hospital Post-Acute Center

Oroville Hospital Post-Acute Center is a large nursing home located in Oroville, California. We gave this facility an overall grade of B-. A score of this caliber requires some decent scores. This actually turned out to be the best facility in Oroville. The best part of this facility's profile was is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section.

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave it an A-. Inspection scores are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

An additional strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in short-term care. We gave it one of our most impressive scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. It fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 55 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients sustaining falls which lead to major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility in the country.

Turning to the fourth category, we gave this facility a grade of D in our long-term care category. This is the nursing home's weakest category grade. Unfortunately, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall grade a bit. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of offering favorable levels of nursing care, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.68553 percent of its patients. These scores are obviously more favorable than several of its other data points in the category. To our surprise, this facility also was not as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 2.57 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not bad due to it having some more complex patients.