Twin Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Included in this facility's litany of low-end scores was its F in the area of short-term care. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is typically a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Based on its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage 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 well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we assessed is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a poor score here as well. Sadly, it received an F for this category, which is obviously a major concern. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.