White Oak Manor - Spartanburg

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this very important area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this nursing home received dominant marks in the category of long-term care. Consequently, it received one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A+. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.5098 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

In our last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our short-term care grade. This rounded out a very strong profile. Our short-term care grades are likely most meaningful for those needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.