Seminole Pioneer Nursing Home

This facility's overall grade was propped up by a strong long-term care grade. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of B+. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 71.15385 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another one of this nursing home's better category scores was in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B. It actually performed better than most facilities in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. We weighed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this area. 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. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

In the final area we looked at, we found that this facility earned a solid inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from government inspectors. It earned a decent grade in inspections with a B-. This facility didn't have any major weaknesses. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.