Cleveland Pines

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Very few nursing homes fared as well in this category. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category typically have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other accomplishments is its elite long-term care grade. We awarded them one of our most impressive grades in that area, with a grade of A-. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.37705 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility 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 a remarkably low figure.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. There are numerous datapoints included in this grade. Many of the factors are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we analyzed was short-term care. This facility was awarded an impressive short-term care score this year, with a C. Although this was not quite as good as many of its other category grades, this is nevertheless an acceptable score in this area. In calculating these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.