Thousand Oaks Healthcare Center

Thousand Oaks Healthcare Center is a large facility located in Thousand Oaks, California. With an overall grade of B-, this is likely a middle of the road facility. You can definitely do worse than this nursing home. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

We want to note that this facility earned a far better grade for short-term care than its overall score. It received one of our highest scores in that category with a score of A. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most important for individuals requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 58.7 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that category, which is one of our better scores. Nursing ratings are largely tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Lastly, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home in the nation.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This is a very respectable nursing score. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings aren't the end of the world.

The next area we rated was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a C in that area. Our long-term care grades are more important for residents needing more traditional assistance related to activities of daily living. On top of providing very solid levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.5 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less favorable than its other scores in the long-term care area.