Pleasant View Lodge

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A-. Our nursing score is based on a number of subcategories. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 5.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. It performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

In addition, this facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area. Inspection scores are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Places that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider 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 inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Turning to our third area, this nursing home also received a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This proved to be a real strength for this nursing home. This place outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 57.5 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

The next category we scored was long-term care. We gave this nursing home one of our higher grades in this area, with a B. This facility proved to be very solid in each area we assessed. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of offering well above average levels of nursing care, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.