Terrace Oaks Care & Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it a B+ in that category, which happens to be one of our better. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.45355 percent of its patients, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 1.34 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home's second worse score was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that area. This is a well below average score. Our short-term care grade is often employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. With its poor score in this area, we were not stunned to find this place offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The final area we graded is nursing, which is this nursing home's least impressive category. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is clearly very disappointing. Our nursing grade includes quite a few components, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home averaged a meager 3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This number is quite a bit below the national average. Unfortunately, this facility also had abysmal scores in several of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hour totals. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this statistic.