Pebble Creek

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it was given a score of B. It performed better than most nursing homes in this area. With our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

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. Our nursing score analyzes a handful of subcategories, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a low total compared to most other nursing homes. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The last area we looked at is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is not a bad grade in this area. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 97.26652 percent of its residents. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.