Sharon Health Care Pines

Even though this place's overall grade was terrible, it didn't perform quite as poorly in long-term care. We awarded it a C for that area, which isn't bad. This wasn't enough to salvage its otherwise weak profile. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this facility administered the vaccine to a relatively low 13.079019 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Our nursing score is largely based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

We wanted to draw your attention to this facility's inspection grade where it received an F. For facilities that received this bad of an inspection grade, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

The last category we looked at is short-term care. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in this category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is frequently a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. As you might expect, we discovered that this facility provides significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average nursing home. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below the national average.