Shinnery Oaks Community

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with an A-. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also was awarded a strong long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we gave them a B+ in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.39394 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's second least favorable category was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average grade. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is typically a solid measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Given its poor rating in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home offers far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below the national average.

This nursing home's worst category is nursing, which is the last area we looked at. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area. Despite several solid grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we wanted to make sure you are aware. We looked at the licensure of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This place provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.