White Oak Manor - York

With an address in York, South Carolina, White Oak Manor - York is the sole option we were able to find in the area. This facility was awarded an A- overall, which is one of the top grades that we offer. A score in this range requires first-rate scores across the board. You simply can not do any better than this nursing home. This facility also received consistently good scores in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with a favorable overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider 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 top-shelf resume, this nursing home also was awarded a strong long-term care score, with a score of A. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.82006 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.81 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this place is just about middle of the road in this area.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home in the state.

The final area we graded was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B. While this wound up being its least impressive category rating, this is still an above average score. Short-term care grades are often employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This nursing home is respectable both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that it performed respectably with 47.4 percent of its patients returning home.