Tipton Oak Manor

To go along with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. This grade is far better than its overall grade. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Our nursing score is largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 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 generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility's third best area ended up being short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a C. Our short-term care grade is often employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

This nursing home's worst area is long-term care, which is the final area we looked at. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. We were a bit concerned this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 71.12299 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.