Pleasant View Lodge

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. When determining our nursing ratings, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients even once per day.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Turning the page to our third category, we awarded this facility a score of A- for its short-term care score. This is a very impressive score. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we assessed was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a B. Although this proved to be its poorest category score, this is still a strong score. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.