The Oaks - Limestone
2560 Flintridge Road, Gainesville GA 30501 · (770) 536-3391 · 89.13% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
The Oaks - Limestone is a nursing home located in Gainesville, Georgia. This city has a population of 120,577 people. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this looks like a very good facility. We were pleased to find out that this matched the average grade of facilities in Gainesville, which is one of the better cities in Georgia to find a nursing home. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 104 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ inspection grade. This is just about as good as it gets in this critical category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to this facility's list of achievements, it also was given a fine long-term care grade. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this area. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.38 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at is short-term care. This facility received a first-rate short-term care grade. We gave them an elite grade of A- in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a reliable assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility in the nation in this area with 58 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Nurse Quality
This facility's least impressive area is nursing, which is the final category we scored. For this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. We would like to to draw your attention to this possible weak link, however, you should not dwell on one category either. Our nursing rating is based on several data points. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. Unfortunately, this facility also did not fare as well as we hoped in some of the quality measures we assessed in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Oaks - Limestone Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better