Ann Pearl Nursing Facility

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Nursing scores are primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also performed well in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Not many facilities performed more favorably in this category. Our short-term care grades are arguably more important for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a strong long-term care score. In fact, it received one of our most favorable grades in this area with a score of A-. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 86.936935 percent of its residents. This is slightly less than we expected but still a decent figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we looked at is inspections. This did not end up being one of this facility's stronger areas. We gave it a grade of just D in this category. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we take this one very seriously. Our inspection ratings weigh many items on the nursing home's inspection reports. When you see severe deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular nursing home was assessed a deficiency on its inspection report. We were relieved to find that it was not in one of the categories that suggest that it created a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we also would like to point out that this place was assessed large government fines in recent years of more than $50,000. This often suggests that inspectors became fed up after multiple years of bad health inspections.