Twin Oaks Manor

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility excelled in inspections, where it earned an A. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave them one of our more positive scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 93.181816 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the final category we assessed, this facility was given a very favorable grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility wrapped up a very impressive profile. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.