Seminole Pioneer Nursing Home

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received a very impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 65.789474 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is slightly less than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility was inspections, where it earned a B in that category. It performed better than most facilities in this area. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was awarded a strong short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better grades in that area with a score of B. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final area we assessed was nursing. This nursing home received a grade of B- in this area. Our nursing score assesses quite a few components, but the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has quality controls in place.