Oxford Health & Rehab Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a strong nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection rating. Inspections is its best category. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our inspection grades are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility was given a strong long-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that area with a score of B+. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.45055 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. Short-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The next category we analyzed was nursing. This facility was given a grade of B- for this category. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our grade in this area. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also factored in some quality-based measures in this category. While this facility didn't rank highly in terms of its nursing hours, it performed better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided with better nursing care.