Pleasant Hill Post Acute

Pleasant Hill Post Acute is a small nursing home located in Pleasant Hill, California. It looks like this nursing home is one of the higher-graded facilities we assessed. A score in this range requires very strong scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the United States. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive profile is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph

In addition to performing well overall, this facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Adding to its high-end resume, this facility also was awarded an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 57.2 percent of its patients returning home. At most facilities, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing grades are primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This place boasts a really impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home was given a better than average nursing rating this year, with a grade of B. While this was not quite as elite as some of its other grades, this remains one of the better grades in that area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered in addition to this nursing home's impressive nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.47 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.