Oxford Health Center

To go along with a favorable overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for inspections. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those 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 health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Compounding its elite performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A- for its short-term care score. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. There are many criteria within this grade. Most of these factors relate to staffing levels. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a resident more frequently.

The next category we rated proved to be this facility's poorest area. However, even in its worst category we still awarded it an acceptable grade of B- in our long-term care category. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated just 54.57746 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.