Pierre Care and Rehabilitation Center
950 East Park Street, Pierre SD 57501 · (605) 224-8628 · 90.89% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
With an address in Pierre, South Dakota, Pierre Care and Rehabilitation Center is one of a mere two available facilities in this city. Featuring an overall score of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. Based on our assessment, you'd be better off to avoid of this facility. Finally, inspections was the lone shining light in this nursing home's profile. We provide more information on this category below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 67 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we gave this place a terrible overall score, we gave it a grade of B+ for our inspections category. This was the result of the facility receiving a decent government inspection report this year. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. There are a variety of datapoints within this area. Many of these subcategories reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home offered just 2.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at some quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home was above average in two of the major statistics we considered, with good scores for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are often good measures of the quality of nursing care provided.
Long-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this facility's next highest score was long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively poorly. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.38009 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we rated is short-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a very poor grade. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With a grade of this caliber in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in multiple staffing areas we focus on. The facility provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 36.9 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Pierre Care and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients who suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in major injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better