Pleasant Hill Manor

Pleasant Hill Manor is a large facility located in Piketon, Ohio. With a really poor overall grade of F, this nursing home isn't high on our list. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Piketon. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

While this facility's overall score was terrible, it actually performed pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that had a long list of severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We were also surprised to discover that this facility received a decent short-term care rating in our assessment. We gave it a grade of C in this category. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The key is determining what effect this had on quality of care. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found it was above average in this metric with 52.2 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. This nursing home's was given a low-end long-term care score where it was given an F. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.07 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Switching gears to the next category, this facility didn't fare well in this area either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is just about as bad as it gets. There are quite a few data points included in this grade. Many of the subcategories relate to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these scores hurt this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.