Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home

To go along with its favorable overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also performed well in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities fared better in this category. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.36306 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home also excelled in the short-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A- in that category. This topped off a straight A report card. Our short-term care scores are probably more important for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.