Pleasant Acres Care Center

While we were not complementary of this facility's overall grade, it actually earned an impressive nursing score this year. We gave it a grade of B+ in this category. We assessed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning patients even once per day.

This facility's next most favorable area turned out to be short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a C. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We found that this place 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 still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility earned mediocre inspections in recent years. We gave them a grade of C in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This nursing home had 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories G through L. This means that it dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This nursing home's least impressive area was long-term care, which is the last area we looked at. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of D. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 83.60656 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.