Pine Haven Care Center

We awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A for our short-term care grade. This score is much more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The third highest category we gave this nursing home in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to just 84.10256 percent of its residents, which is several points lower than we expected. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we looked at is inspections. This did not end up being one of this facility's stronger areas. We gave it a D in this category. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we typically take this one very seriously. One of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with 8 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This often means that a bad performance has been an issue for more than one year.