Caregivers of Pleasant Grove

This facility received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave it an A- in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing score. In fact, we gave it an B in that category. When calculating our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Alabama in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

This nursing home was awarded an impressive long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category with a grade of B. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 50.96774 percent of its patients. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. Our short-term care scores are arguably most important for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.