Mt Pleasant Healthcare and Rehabilitation

On top of faring well overall, this facility also received nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. Inspection ratings account for 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 higher grades in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Another one of this facility's quality category grades came in the category of long-term care. We gave them one of our more positive grades in that category, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.425285 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. We analyzed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in determining our score in this category. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable short-term care rating. While this wasn't as dominant as many of its other scores, this is truly nothing to be ashamed of. Our short-term care ratings are vital for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.