The Oaks

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this very important area. Inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem 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 an excellent sign.

To add to its elite performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care grade. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 96.941895 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning the page to our next category, this facility was given a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in this area. In forming these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility received an excellent nursing rating. We awarded it a grade of B+ in this area, wrapping up one of our better report cards. In computing a facility's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.