Pleasant View Nursing Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that 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. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home also didn't grade out poorly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of B- for that category, which happens to be another one of its better scores. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.50249 percent of its patients. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home's received a low-end short-term care grade where it was given an F. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. With its score in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.

The next area we assessed is nursing. This facility received a poor grade of F in this category. In determining our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided only 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.