Pine Valley Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this facility also earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can offer a facility. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility really excelled in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Not many nursing homes performed more favorably in this category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 92.164185 percent of its patients. This is slightly less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. The nursing score analyzes quite a few components, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving residents even once per day.

The final area we rated is short-term care. This nursing home was given a favorable short-term care grade in our assessment, with a C. While this was not nearly as elite as many of its other category grades, this remains a respectable rating in that area. Our short-term care grade is generally used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.