Pine Ridge Health and Rehabilitation Center

Pine Ridge Health and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Thomasville, North Carolina. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. This nursing home is just about as bad as it gets. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although this facility's overall score was rock bottom, it didn't perform as poorly in the area of nursing. We awarded it a B- for that area. In determining our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This place provides only 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below average. Lastly, while this nursing home didn't rank highly in terms of nursing hours per resident, it performed much better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average.

This nursing home didn't perform terribly in the category of inspections. We gave it a C for that category. Other aspects of its profile were the source of its abysmal overall score. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with 8 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means that this facility dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Another issue was the F this facility was given in the category of short-term care. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is generally a reliable assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. As you might expect, we learned that this nursing home offers far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 33.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in that category. Facilities that don't fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 78.5877 percent of its residents. This is quite a bit less than average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.66 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.