Pleasant Lake Villa

One of the reasons this proved to be a quality nursing home is it received a very impressive short-term care rating. In fact, short-term care is its best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A. Short-term care scores are critical for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also performed well in inspections. It received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our best scores in that area with a score of A-. Few facilities with an overall score in this range performed this well in multiple categories. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we looked at was long-term care, which was this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. Sadly, this score hurt the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.7669 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.