Pine Creek Rehab & Nursing

We gave this nursing home one of our better scores in long-term care, with a grade of A-. This is a notably better grade than the nursing home's overall grade, which was decent but not elite. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 89.92248 percent of its residents. This is a few points below what we expected but still a decent figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of B+. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Facilities that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. Nursing ratings are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this area. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a resident even once per day.

The next area we scored is short-term care. We awarded it a C in that category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.