The Oaks at Timberline

We would like to point out that this nursing home's inspection score exceeded its overall score. This facility earned a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our inspection ratings are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility also excelled in our nursing category, where it earned an B. Nursing grades are mostly based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident more frequently.

This facility was given its third most favorable category grade in the area of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable score. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we scored was short-term care. We awarded this facility a C in that area. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most meaningful for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.