Pioneer Nursing Home

Pioneer Nursing Home is located in Vale, Oregon. This facility is among the most impressive facilities we found. In fact, it received our absolute highest rating. You simply can't do any better than this facility. We also gave this nursing home strong scores in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This place boasts a really impressive 5 hours of nursing care per patient per day, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The third category we analyzed is long-term care. This facility fared very well in our long-term care rating as well. We awarded them a dominant score of A+ in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to assessing the impressive quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff at this nursing home, we also were pleased by the nursing home's vaccination statistics. By way of example, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our fourth area, this nursing home also performed admirably in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A- in this area. This finalized a straight A profile. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. This nursing home is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. It provided about 50% more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 42.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.