Peninsula Post-Acute

While we were not high on this facility overall, we gave it a grade of B- for inspections. This score is more respectable than the facility's overall score. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

This facility's second best category was its short-term care score, where it was given a B-. Short-term care grades are important for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our long-term care score. This is not an impressive grade. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The last area we rated was nursing, was this facility's worst category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that area. We analyzed the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This place averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than twice the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a very weak nursing score.