Pleasant View Health Care Center

This facility received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most facilities in this category. In forming our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to our third area, this nursing home also received a grade of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.346405 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last area we looked at was nursing, in which this nursing home received a grade of B. This facility ended up being strong in each area we assessed. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning patients more frequently.