Pine Crest Health Care

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were category G through L deficiencies. This means that this facility dodged the more serious classes of deficiencies. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

This facility excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an D. We looked at the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's second least favorable score was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that area. This is a relatively poor score. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. With a grade this poor for this area, we weren't surprised to find that this place was below average in two of the key staffing figures we focus on. It provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home's weakest category is long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this nursing home administered the vaccine to a relatively low 83.36192 percent of its residents, which is well below average. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.