Senior Care of Green Oaks

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones 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. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

As it turns out, this facility only received a grade of D for its long-term care rating, which ended up being one of its more respectable category scores. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated only 73.81974 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. The nursing grade assesses many components, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we graded is short-term care. It received a lowly F in this area, which is a rock bottom grade. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Considering its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this facility's short-term care score.