Pleasant View Nursing Home

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. We assessed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its strong resume, this facility also was awarded a strong long-term care grade, with a grade of A. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.20949 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our final category, we awarded this nursing home an A- for its short-term care score. This rounded out a very strong profile. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.