Pearl Pavilion

While we gave this facility an abysmal overall score, we awarded it a B for short-term care. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. In computing our nursing ratings, we assess both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

We wanted to point out that this nursing home received a lowly F for its inspection rating. An F in this category is particularly troublesome because it typically points to red flags on the facility's inspections. With places that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was hit with 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines amounting to over $100,000. This usually means that a facility's poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given an abysmal score in this category also. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 90.196075 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly less than the national average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.