Sterling Oaks Rehabilitation

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had favorable view of this facility's recent inspections.

This facility's long-term care score turns out to be one of its respectable scores. The nursing home was given a grade of B- in this category. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.319725 percent of its patients. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. The nursing score includes a host of datapoints. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. While this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this metric. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning patients even once per day.

The last category we looked at is short-term care, which was this facility's weakest category. It received a lowly F in this category, which is obviously concerning. Our short-term care grade is often employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Considering its score in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage 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 4.2 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.