Plainview Healthcare Center

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a positive grade in our long-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B+ in that area. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.88268 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Sadly, this nursing home's third highest score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. It looks like this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the staffing figures we considered. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The final area we scored is nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is clearly a major disappointment. Our nursing grade includes a host of data points. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. On top of receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic dragged down this nursing home's nursing score substantially.