Pinebrook Center

Pinebrook Center is one of six facilities located in Venice, Florida. This nursing home received a superb overall score of A-, making it ranked among the top three facilities in the city. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is just about as as good as it gets. Scroll down to see this facility's category ratings, which are also strong. It would be hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also received A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly perfect. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Only a select group of facilities performed better in this category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. This place fared as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 64.2 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term patients are able to return home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. The nursing grade considers a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 3.7 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 better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B. Believe it or not, this was this nursing home's weakest category. A nursing home is doing something right when it's worst grade still is superior to most facilities. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.59 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.