Pines Rehab & Health Center

Pines Rehab & Health Center is located in Lyndonville, Vermont. The city has 6,528 people. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Lyndonville. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was nursing, which is discussed in the next section.

Even though we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a somewhat respectable nursing rating this year. We gave it a B- in this area. The nursing rating weighs a handful of components, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. According to its staffing data, this facility provided an average of 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which was above average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these statistics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this datapoint.

This nursing home also didn't grade out too badly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of B- for that category, which ended up being among its better scores. With our short-term care score, we strive to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 37.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care. This facility's was given a rock-bottom long-term care grade where it was given an F. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. This nursing home's vaccination data lagged a bit behind a few of its other statistics in this area, such as its nursing hours data. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.83957 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.83 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

The final category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive positive government inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies identified by the government inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to patients. Another red flag is that CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.