Cleveland Pines

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. Our inspection grades are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors 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.

Contributing to its first-rate resume, this nursing home also received a superb long-term care grade, with a score of A. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.93104 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the next area, this facility also earned a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. In computing these short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we analyzed was nursing, where this nursing home received a B-. While this turned out to be its least impressive category score, this is nevertheless not a poor grade. The nursing score features many data points. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this subcategory. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning patients more often.