Pleasant Hills Com Liv Center

This place ended up receiving rock bottom ratings in our analysis. Most alarmingly, it received an F for its inspection grade. Typically, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspections. For places with poor inspection scores, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home had one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. Lastly, we also want to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This typically signifies that a facility's poor track record spanned multiple years.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of F. Our nursing score assesses a handful of subcategories, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the category of long-term care. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 66.78082 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

The next category we scored is short-term care. This facility was given a poor grade of F in this area. Our short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Based on its score in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics sunk this facility's short-term care score.