Pioneer Care Center

Although we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we wanted to note its decent health inspection reports in recent years. We awarded it a somewhat respectable grade of B- in this area. Inspection grades are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an B-. There are many subcategories within this grade. Many of these datapoints reflect levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is far below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

The next highest category we gave this facility in any area came in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more important for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in that category. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 93.38843 percent of its patients. This is a bit less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.