Pinecrest Rehabilitation Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection grades are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given an impressive score in our long-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B+ in that area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 93.70861 percent of its patients. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a solid grade of C. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 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.

The final area we assessed is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is well below average. Finally, our nursing scores also consider some quality-focused statistics. We especially look at the percent of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these issues.