Pine View Transitional Rehab

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for its short-term care grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is generally a useful assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This grade is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. When calculating our nursing scores, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility the country 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 by having a protocol of turning a patient more often.

Moving on to the final category, this facility was given a highly favorable long-term care grade. While this is not quite as dominant as several of its other category grades, this is still one of the more favorable grades we offer. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were not able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.