Pine Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing

One of the reasons this turned out to be a decent nursing home is it received a favorable inspection score. In this area, we gave this nursing home a B+. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in 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 health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Nursing scores are primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 2.6 hours of nursing care per patient daily. At least one quarter of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care. In computing our grades, we apply additional weight to hours provided by registered or licensed nurses. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident more often.

This nursing home's third most favorable category ended up being its long-term care grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our long-term care grade is often used to score a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 67.76859 percent of its residents. Fortunately, 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.

The next area we rated was short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this area. Short-term care ratings are crucial for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this place is below average.