Tipton Oak Manor

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The second most favorable category we gave this facility in any area came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. With our long-term care assessment, we focus more on the quantity of services provided by a facility, along with a series of quality datapoints. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 82.40741 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit less than what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. The nursing grade analyzes many components, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averages just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is well below average. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The final area we graded is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a grade of C for the category. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.