Pines Nursing Home

Although we gave this nursing home an abysmal overall grade, we awarded it a C for our nursing rating. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a low total compared with most nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

This nursing home also didn't perform too badly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a C in that area, which is another one of its more respectable grades. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. As it turns out, this facility provided the vaccine to only 56.321842 percent of its patients, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Sadly, this facility received a grade of just D in our inspection category. This is well below average grade. Our inspection ratings factor in many items on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. If you see severe deficiencies on the reports, this is generally the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we also would like to point out that this place was assessed large government fines amounting to over $100,000. This often means that a facility's poor track record spanned several years.

The final area we looked at is short-term care. This facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that area. In our short-term care score, we try to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With its score in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 2.4 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.