Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this place excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to this facility's list of achievements, it also was awarded a superb long-term care score. We awarded them a dominant grade of A- in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.5173 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 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 weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a low total compared with most nursing homes. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility was awarded a decent short-term care grade of C. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is often a fair assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 3.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.