Twin Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best grades in this category with a grade of A. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to minimize negative health outcomes for the senior population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's second worse category was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average grade. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. As you might expect, we found that this place offers far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

Switching gears to our next area, this facility did not fare well. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this was its weakest area. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. On top of its below average nursing hours, this place received poor marks in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in calculating our nursing ratings. We found that more of this place's patients experienced falls leading to major injury. We believe that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this nursing home receiving a poor nursing rating.