Presidential Oaks

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing rating. The nursing grade features numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without having the information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it was challenging to really evaluate it in terms of this category.

We also want to note the fact that this facility was given a superb score of A- in our long-term care category. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 81.86529 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next area we graded is short-term care, where this facility was given a B-. Even though this is its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.