Pinellas Point Nursing and Rehab Center

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area, with an A+. This is a much better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the area of long-term care, we gave this facility a grade of A in that category. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this place 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 an impressively low figure.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility an impressive grade of D. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses commit to residents and the skill levels of the nurses. With a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we analyzed is short-term care, which ended up being this facility's least impressive category. It received a lowly F for this category, which is certainly a major disappointment. In our short-term care category, we strive to craft a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.