Pleasant Hill Health and Rehabilitation Center

Pleasant Hill Health and Rehabilitation Center is the sole option we found in Pleasant Hill, Missouri. This is a relatively poor nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Based on our analysis, this facility likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Another one of this facility's better category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 3.11 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this area, this figure can be skewed for some nursing homes due to some of the medical complexity of patients.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in this category. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be most critical for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 42.4 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

The final category we scored is nursing. This facility received a poor grade of F in this category. Nursing scores are mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular place provided a meager 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This number is well below average. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at about 150 percent of the national average in both of these data points. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.