Pleasant View Lodge

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

In addition, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the area of short-term care. In computing these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. As you might expect, we discovered that this place offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average nursing home. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing score is mostly based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last category we looked at was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade here as well. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is obviously very concerning. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 83.333336 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.