Pontiac Care and Rehabilitation Center

While we were not very complementary of this nursing home's overall grade, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's next best area is short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this area. Our short-term care ratings are likely most meaningful for people needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

This nursing home wound up receiving a an abysmal grade in our long-term care category. It was given an F in this category. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 66.19718 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

The next category we scored is nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is an abysmal score. When calculating our nursing ratings, we assess both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics pulled down this facility's nursing rating significantly.