The Oaks at Woodfield

To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this facility an A for our short-term care rating. Our short-term care ratings are presumably most important for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we scored is long-term care, where this nursing home received a C. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. This is nevertheless not a poor grade. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 94.64286 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.