Pittsburg Nursing Center

Neither this facility's overall score nor its category grades gave us anything positive to point out. Its best category was short-term care, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a weak score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is generally a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. With its grade in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this nursing home's short-term care score.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing score is primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

We wanted to point out this nursing home's inspection grade where it received an F. When a place has this bad of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular facility was hit with 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we need to point out that this place received significant government fines in recent years exceeding $50,000. This often means that CMS inspectors grew tired after multiple years of bad health inspections.

The final category we assessed is long-term care, in which this facility received a very poor grade in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is definitely a major disappointment. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.56962 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.