Pelican Pointe Healthcare and Rehabilitation

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. It actually performed better than most facilities in this area. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.76303 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. With a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we scored is short-term care. We awarded this facility a D for the area of short-term care, leaving this as the facility's weakest category grade. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.