The Oaks-Brevard

The Oaks-Brevard is a nursing home located in Brevard, North Carolina. This city has a population of 19,347 people. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this looks like a very good facility. This facility truly has plenty of good features. Fortunately, this nursing home didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

To pair with its favorable overall performance, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility truly excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Only a select group of nursing homes performed better in this area. Short-term care scores are crucial for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 50.1 percent of its residents able to return home.

This facility received even higher grades in the area of nursing. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Our nursing grade analyzes quite a few factors, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. At least one fourth of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are skilled nurses. This is a high ratio of skilled nursing care. In calculating our nursing grades, we apply more weight to hours provided by more highly trained nurses such as registered nurses. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

The last area we assessed is long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of C. While this proved to be its lowest category score, this is still not a terrible score. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 96.46302 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 1.73 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.