White Oak Manor - Spartanburg

On top of receiving an elite overall rating, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection score. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can offer a nursing home. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was superb in our long-term care rating. We gave them a dominant grade of A+ in this area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.5122 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing grade analyzes quite a few subcategories, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Switching gears to the final category, this facility was awarded a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a B+ in this category, finishing off one of our finer profiles. In computing these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.