Pinecrest Manor

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility has received near flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

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+. Nursing grades are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B in this category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next area we rated was long-term care. We gave this facility a solid grade in that category, with a B-. Even though this was not as dominant as a few of this facility's other grades, it is still a middle of the pack score. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 88.15029 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is several points below average. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.