Pine Village

On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. There are a variety of subcategories included in this grade. Many of these criteria are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to inspections, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having access to all of the deficiency related data, it was difficult to really evaluate the place in this area.

Turning the page to our third category, this facility was awarded first-rate long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. 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. This facility vaccinated 97.35849 percent of its residents, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we scored is short-term care, where this nursing home received a B-. This actually ended up being this facility's weakest area. This is still nothing to be ashamed of. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more critical for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.