Pilot Point Care Center

On top of receiving a great overall score, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave it an A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also was given a first-rate long-term care grade. We gave them a strong grade of A- in this area. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.65072 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home was given its next most favorable category score in the area of short-term care. We awarded this facility a C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Short-term care scores are critical for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning to the last category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in the area of nursing. This is the facility's worst category rating. Naturally, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall grade a bit. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in determining our rating in this area. This place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This statistic is well below average. Although this nursing home didn't excel in the area of nursing hours, it surprised us in a few of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding serious falls. This facility was above average in this metric, which was one redeeming quality we found in this category.