Pleasant View Home

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Nursing scores are primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility was awarded an impressive short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category with a score of B. In crafting these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. We were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

The last area we assessed is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B-. While this is its poorest category grade, this is nevertheless not a poor grade. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the vaccine to only 79.74683 percent of its residents. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.