Pacific Grove Healthcare Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we had a generally favorable view of this nursing home's inspections.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. We awarded it an B- for that category, which is one of our best grades. Our nursing grade includes several factors. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for individuals requiring more traditional services associated with activities of daily living. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. It doesn't appear that this facility provided information about vaccinations. Finally, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we rated was short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's worst area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that category. In our short-term care grade, we strive to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Based on its score in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care score.