Pine View Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in the area of nursing. In fact, it received one of our best grades in that category with a grade of A. Our nursing rating analyzes many factors, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

This facility also received a favorable short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care grades are presumably most critical for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The third category we assessed is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Our long-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of nursing services. This means a broad range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the last category of inspections, this was not one of this nursing home's better grades. Inspection grades are based on a facility's recent government inspections. We gave this nursing home a C in this category. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means this facility dodged the more significant categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.